Sr. Staff Engineer, Embedded Firmware (bare metal)
$180,000–$223,000 year
On-site · San Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior staff role focused on driving firmware design for high-speed SerDes and multi-chip package subsystems in an embedded environment. Design, develop, and optimize bare-metal firmware; collaborate with analog/mixed-signal, digital, and photonics teams to define micro-architecture and embedded requirements; implement control algorithms for photonic subsystems; author unit/integration tests, participate in code reviews, and maintain CI/CD pipelines; support silicon bring-up and hardware-firmware bring-up activities; create APIs, architecture documents, module specifications, and release notes; work with hardware validation, systems, and software teams throughout product development.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Proven expertise in bare-metal embedded firmware development with strong programming skills in C
- Experience with various microcontrollers and firmware debugging tools
- Proficiency with modern version control workflows (e.g., Git), modern firmware development tools, and CI/CD tools
- Hands-on proactive approach to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Silicon bring-up experience
- Experience in scripting with high-level language like Python
- Experience with Make-based build flows
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