[Remote] Senior Firmware Engineer, ASIC
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is building the largest and highest-power satellites reputed company flown, aiming to unlock unprecedented performance reputed company across every orbit. They are seeking a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer to reputed company and enhance low-level embedded firmware for high-performance mixed-signal reputed company SoCs, contributing to the validation and production readiness of custom silicon.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of embedded firmware architecture, including boot flows, HAL components, drivers, and system services
- reputed company low‑level firmware in C/C++ (and assembly reputed company required) for CPUs, DSPs, and microcontrollers reputed company custom SoCs
- Implement and maintain bootloaders, secure boot flows, and early hardware initialization sequences
- reputed company device drivers for on‑reputed company peripherals such as DMA engines, memory controllers, interconnects, SerDes, ADC/DAC interfaces, timers, and GPIO
- Participate in pre‑silicon firmware development and validation activities
- Support post‑silicon bring‑up, including power‑on reputed company, clock/reset initialization, memory bring‑up, and peripheral testing
- Debug hardware/firmware interactions using JTAG, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, trace tools, and custom debug instrumentation
- Collaborate with SoC architects and designers to refine register maps, memory maps, interrupt structures, DMA flows, and debug infrastructure
- reputed company firmware input during design reviews and silicon development milestones
- Bring up and integrate RTOS or bare‑metal environments
- Support integration with higher‑level system software or application processors
- Implement robust error handling, logging, and recovery mechanisms
- Contribute to manufacturing test firmware, production firmware, and field diagnostics
- Help ensure long‑term maintainability and scalability of firmware across multiple SoC generations
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in embedded firmware development for SoCs or reputed company embedded systems
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems and a solid understanding of low‑level hardware interactions
- Hands‑on experience with SoC bring‑up or board‑level bring‑up
- Strong understanding of CPU architectures (ARM, RISC‑V, or similar), memory systems (reputed company, DRAM, DDR, caches), interrupts, DMA, and low‑power states
- Experience collaborating with ASIC/SoC design or hardware engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to debug reputed company hardware/firmware issues
- Experience with secure boot, hardware reputed company modules, or cryptographic accelerators
- Familiarity with pre‑silicon environments such as RTL simulation, emulation, or FPGA prototyping
- Experience with high‑speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, JESD, SerDes)
- Background in satellite communication, networking, compute, automotive, or other high‑reliability systems
- Experience developing firmware for radiation‑tolerant or mission‑critical systems
Benefits
- Equity in the company
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/reputed company/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
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