Firmware Engineer II

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• Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers.
• Develop firmware in C typically involving bare‑metal programming and developing low‑level APIs on microcontrollers.
• Collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.
• Collaborate with the verification team to deduce a firmware‑hardware co‑verification plan.
• Develop and debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C + Verilog simulations).
• Develop and debug on silicon bring‑up boards.

• Good knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.
• Relevant experience in developing bare‑metal firmware for high‑speed Ser Des or memory interface physical layer blocks.
• Good knowledge of the C programming language for embedded software development and use of a relevant IDE.
• Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystems.
• Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting.
• Good experience with verification EDA tools such as simulators and waveform viewers.

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