Senior Staff Firmware Engineer - - memory constrained embedded system development/data center interconnectivity

Marvell Technology•Santa Clara, CA

22d•$131,010 - $196,300

About The Position

This position is for the optics DCI (Data Center Interconnect) Firmware team which develops embedded software for Marvell's high speed coherent fiber transceivers used for scale across communication, moving data between data centers worldwide. This position will involve in product requirement definition and analysis, feature and device driver development, Application and API development, testing, and issue debugging, etc.

Requirements

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical fields.
7+ years of experience in memory constrained embedded system development.
5+ years of experience of firmware development on device driver and peripherals like I2C, I3C, SPI, etc.
Strong programming skills using C and python.
Strong understanding and experience on RTOS.
Understanding of embedded SoC, micro-controller architecture (RISC-V a plus), memory-mapped hardware interfaces, GPIOs, ISRs.
Comprehension of hardware design schematics.
Familiarity with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeter, power supplies, logic analyzer, and debuggers like JTAG.
Strong problem-solving and customer debug skills on real hardware in the lab.
Highly effective communication and presentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Optical Transceivers, Coherent DSP, Laser, optical components, PID control.
Experience with developing/debugging Linux device driver, software state machines, context saving, error handling.
Knowledge of OIF CMIS, OSFP, SFP, optics, git, Makefile, gdb, IDEs, bash.
Understanding of signal processing: histograms, BER, SNR, sampling phase, Shannon limit, impulse & frequency response, FFT, etc.

Responsibilities

Evaluate and define the DCI product firmware feature requirements.
Design, implement and optimize DCI FW features and make it optimized and reusable for other products.
Perform failure analysis by using various tools and equipment (identify issues, duplicate problems and fix the issues).
Work across teams/sites, which includes but not limits to: Application and project management team on requirements, DVT team on feature and performance analysis and improvement, Hardware team on hardware schematics review, Architecture team on standard.