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System Bios Firmware Architect - 147745

The Role:

We are looking for a System Firmware Architect to join our System Firmware Design team and work on System firmware, BIOS, Security and Power Features for high-performance microprocessor design projects. We deliver world-class, state of the art power-efficient designs to compute systems ranging from cutting edge client personal computers to next generation gaming solutions!

The Person:

The person for this role would need problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail. Be able to use previous System knowledge obtained and contribute and collaborate closely with system/SOC hardware architects, firmware, BIOS and software programmers and product, test and validation engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

Help Lead, develop and drive innovative solutions to support power-efficient designs from early definition to program execution. Work end-to-end delivering complex system firmware feature algorithm architecture from proof-of-concept prototyping to post-silicon bring-up characterization and final preparation for productization.

• Lead the System Firmware Architecture for the complete program.
• Lead the debug effort for System features.
• Drive feature definition and implement prototypes
• Develop system level models and use cases
• Document specifications and test hardware solutions.

Preferred Experience:

• Proven experience working on complex system architecture delivering solutions across system firmware and software stack.
• Experience with power, embedded microcontroller firmware development, hardware test and verification environments
• Pre silicon and Post Silicon Debug experience using Simulation, Emulation tools.
• Experience in microprocessor and computer architecture, power firmware algorithm development, electrical characterization for production and power software, through academic research or previous internships
• Familiarity with chip design tools including RTL and Verilog
• Programming skills in either C or C++ as well as scripting with Perl or Python, for example, and experience with modeling
• Familiarity with both Windows and UNIX platforms
• Programming Algorithms

Education:

BE-CS/BE-EE or MS - CS/ EE 7+years experience working on complex system architecture delivering solutions across system firmware and software stack.

Location: Austin TX Santa Clara, CA and Markham ON Canada

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Requisition Number: 147745
Country: United States State: California City: Santa Clara
Job Function: Design

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