About the role

Key Responsibilities: 5 to 18Yrs exp

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
15+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems
10+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe protocol.
10+ 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.

Technical Staff Engineer-Firmware

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