Firmware Development Technical Lead

The Role:

The Person:

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide end-to-end ownership of the quality, coverage, and completeness of Diagnostics solution to multiple programs.
• Highlights project goals, strategies, risks, and key requirements of Diagnostics, tools, and framework to help PMs, Managers, IP validation architects and Framework architects to create their test plans.
• Owns the Diagnostics pre-silicon emulation strategy and planning across Simnow, FPGA and Emulation models, including the RTL coverage requirements before silicon tape out, Diagnostics verification strategy and requirement before silicon back.
• Owns the SoC system level feature verification methodology and planning.
• Driving the technical requirements to achieve the feature coverage and hardware bug capture targets.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, stakeholders to achieve the key program milestones, such as bring up, all features enablement, performance profiling, production support etc., with desired coverage metrics from Diagnostics.
• Provide Diagnostics support to external customers and customer engineering.

Preferred Experience:

• Proven experience with IP and SoC verification, software development with the ability to closely interact with hardware designers
• Excellent understanding of processors based on SoC architecture, including processor, system IO, memory, engine IP (e.g., graphics, display, video codec etc.), security block, to identify the critical areas for focus of SoC & IP verification
• Proficient in verifying complex IP blocks and system level functions/features for SoC by writing C/C++ programs
• Strong mix of large-scale software development ability and hardware understanding
• Experienced with source controls systems like Perforce and GIT
• Familiar with Linux, knowledge and experience of device driver or firmware development is preferred
• Strong system level debugging and testing skills, and capability to quickly identify problems and provide robust solutions
• Hands-on experience with SoC bring up

Academic Credentials:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred

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