About this role
Job title: Senior Firmware Engineer
About the Role Skyworks seeks a senior firmware engineer/architect to design and implement firmware for embedded systems, including drivers, communication protocols, and application logic. You will collaborate with hardware, QA, and product teams to ensure firmware compatibility with hardware designs, develop test plans, and mentor junior engineers. You will also troubleshoot, maintain, and secure firmware across products.
What You'll Do
- Architecting and implementing firmware solutions for embedded systems, including low-level drivers, communication protocols, and application logic.
- Work with product definers, hardware engineers, QA and product teams to ensure firmware compatibility with hardware designs.
- Developing comprehensive test plans and procedures to verify firmware functionality.
- Debugging hardware/firmware integration issues by utilizing debugging tools to analyze firmware behavior and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Provide ongoing maintenance and support for existing firmware, including troubleshooting, debugging and resolving issues as needed to ensure product reliability and performance.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices for FW/SW development.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related fields.
- 8-10 years of experience in firmware development, embedded systems and related areas.
- Proficiency in C and assembly language; Python or scripting languages is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of microcontrollers, microprocessors, FPGAs, and other embedded hardware architectures.
- Experience with bare metal programming and RTOS like FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
- Experience in writing low level drivers for peripherals like UART, SPI, I2C, PWM etc.
- Knowledge of communication protocols like ZigBee and BLE.
- Proficiency in using debug tools like JTAG, GDB, oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers and other debuggers.
- Understanding of secure firmware development and firmware over-the-air updates.
- Ability to work with different version control systems like GIT, GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
- Experience with unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
- Ability to isolate issues in a system test environment.
Nice to Have
- Mentoring or leadership experience.
Compensation & Benefits
- Not disclosed.