Experienced Embedded Firmware/Software Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Summary
- Development of HAL and Peripheral device drivers for MCX, Crossover RT and i.MX family of devices, such as I2C Master/Slave, SPI Master/Slave, UART, USB, etc., to work in standalone bare metal, ROM and RTOS environments.
- Deliver high quality, well documented and tested code for customers’ reference and use.
- Verify ROM code and other software deliverables on pre-silicon test and debug environments such as RTL and Emulation platforms.
- Actively support key customers.
- Analyze, investigate and resolve system level issues together with other teams globally
- Contribute to internal and external open-source projects, managing the full development lifecycle from forking to merging
- Triage issues, review pull requests, and maintain code quality in public repositories
Key Challenges
- The development of rom code in the absence of silicon
- Verification and debugging issues in pre-silicon environments, meeting close to 100% test coverage
- Hardening of the critical sections of the code to ensure rom code is not vulnerable to physical or logical attacks
- Meeting required security and safety standards
Cross Functional Aspects
- Development of rom code involves interactions with several teams working on the SOC, Marketing, Systems Architects, SOC Design, Verification and Validation leads, Documentation, Software and other team leads.
- Mentoring will be provided by senior members of the system rom team with over 10 years of experience in rom development and architecture
Job Qualifications
- BS/MS Degree in EE or Computer Engineering with embedded software focus, or equivalent experience
- MS with 3 years of experience or BS with 5 years of experience in the related field is required
- Familiar with ARM Assembly, C/C++/RUST/Python programming is a plus
- Understanding of embedded software development including device drivers and consumer embedded applications
- Familiarity in following areas is preferred: Flash, SPI, I2C, USB, UART, CAN, etc.
- Experience with the ARM and RISC-V based Architecture is preferred
- Experience with GCC and GNU make, ARM compilers such as IAR, Keil and DS-5 is preferred
- Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, etc., is preferred
- Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes is preferred
- Experience as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open-source project is preferred
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