Sr Engineer / Principal Engineer- Storage Firmware

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design and Develop firmware/device drivers/software for MIPS processor powered solutions using C and assembly language.  
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems in embedded real-time systems. 
• Participate in detailed design and code reviews of implementations by team 
• As a senior technical member of the team, participate in the technical analysis and designing of storage software solutions involving SAS/SATA expanders, SATA/SAS/NVMe RAID controller technologies and Network Storage architectures. 
• Work with Apps/Marketing team to help customers in the development of their Storage solutions using Microchip devices and software/firmware components 
• Understand customer requirements and drive them through the project management process
• Work in collaboration with other Microchip sites to design new features/solutions and support customer
• Analyze software performance (cycle counts, cache utilization) of firmware. 
• Analyze IO performance and finding ways to make the products yield better performance
• Write comprehensive engineering documentation. 
• Present technical information to small teams of engineers and technical marketing personnel.

 

Requirements/Qualifications:

 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electronics/Computer Science Engineering or related technical majors 
• 5+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems 
• 5+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe protocol. 
• 5+ years of experience in Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience. 
• Good Hands-on Experience in Firmware security and networking protocols is added advantage
• Extensive working experience of storage firmware design and implementation using C and ASM
• Experience in developing device drivers for peripheral protocols like GPIO, I2C, SPI, etc
• Experience in GreenHills probe is added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems. 
• Demonstrated knowledge in use of protocol analyzers and debug tools. 
• Exposure to Storage Security features (Encryptions, SPDM, Hash algorithms) are added advantage 
• Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills 
• Team Player and proven leadership skills
• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision
• Debugging technique using GHS. Probe.