Firmware Engineer

Broadcom’s Data Center Solutions develops data center infrastructure components with a product portfolio that spans storage, rack scale interconnectivity and networking. Our semiconductor and software solutions are enabling hyperscalers and AI providers to achieve next-gen scalability and performance across their stacks. We are looking for software engineers, experienced in embedded systems development, to join our team and contribute to the creation, maintenance and expansion of these cutting-edge solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and troubleshoot firmware modules, boot loaders and low level protocol drivers (SPI, I2C, UART etc.) for embedded platforms with or without RTOS integration.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, cross functional and geographically distributed, to support firmware design, silicon bring up and firmware debug as required.
• Understand IC specifications, collaborate with IC design and architecture to define and implement firmware flow.
• Participate in peer reviews, perform and analyze static and dynamic code analysis and contribute to code hardening.
• Create detailed documentation of the firmware module designs, implementation and user guides.
• Work closely with software/firmware QA and IC validation to define, review and execute robust test plans which would include unit, integration and stress tests.
• Work, as required, with support and customer teams - development and QA - to support customer integrations and in-field troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering or a higher degree in Electronics or Computer Science specializations with 5+ years of experience in embedded software/firmware development or Linux/Unix systems engineering.
• Proficiency in C/C++. Working knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl etc.) would be a plus.
• Technical expertise, hands-on development experience with the following protocols - PCIe , DMTF management protocols (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM etc.).
• Knowledge and experience on embedded development for ARM platforms.
• Good understanding of operating systems’ concepts and practical experience in developing low level drivers or firmware modules.
• Strong debugging skills. Good understanding of debugging hardware/software interactions and usage of debug tools like JTAG, GDB etc.
• Working knowledge of development for multi-threaded environments.
• Experience with embedded RTOS (ThreadX, Nucleus) is preferable but not mandatory.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with a distributed development team spread across multiple sites and time zones.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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