As a Firmware Engineer, you will lead firmware development for chiplet systems, create efficient methodologies for performance analysis, define APIs, and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure high-quality product delivery. You will also oversee firmware architecture, documentation, and debugging processes.
Join the leading chiplet startup! As an Eliyan FW Lead, you will be working at a fast-paced early stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow’s chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will be developing FW for for best-in-class PHYs and Controllers. You will work with a cross-functional team of experts that operate from first principles, innovate and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits. MUST BE WILLING TO WORK ONSITE - M-F
Key Responsibilities:
- Define state-of-the-art FW development environment spanning compilers, build and source code control tools
- Design, develop, and test C/C++ based functions on pre-silicon verification environment, including hardware emulation platforms, through chip bring-up
- Define and implement efficient methodologies to extract key performance indicators and telemetry for various PHY operating modes
- Define customer facing API interfaces for PHY and controller products
- Define and support implementation of a flexible FW QA infrastructure for automated regressions of pre-silicon, emulation, and post-silicon test plans
- Work with cross functional teams across the company to deliver customer-ready products
- Interview and ability to attract technically strong engineers for supporting various functions of FW deployment
- Work with analog and digital teams during design and post-silicon bring-up phases for day 1 end-to-end path bring-up / debug
- Develop plans and track progress to maintain aggressive development and deployment timelines
- Own FW architecture definition documentation and schedule cross-functional reviews
- Full ownership of FW, API and customer specific debug GUI infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications:
- M.S. or Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and related fields, or equivalent
- Strong bias for innovations across all aspects of FW design including effectively collaborating with chip architects and designs for efficient HW/SW partitioning
- Minimum 8 years’ experience leading and delivering production quality FW on SerDes/IO/PHY products
- Strong technical foundation and experience with analog, DSP and controller products
- Proven track record leading small teams in a start-up like environment to successful delivery of products into production
- Full understanding of established and emerging design methodologies and flows
- Knowledge of DRAM Controllers, DRAM PHYs, HBM Memory a plus
Eliyan Corporation Santa Clara, California, USA Office
Santa Clara, California, United States
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