Firmware Engineer II (DDR5)

Location: Austin, United States; onsite

What you will do

• Develop bare-metal C firmware and low-level APIs for DDR5 PHY microcontrollers.
• Collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive and implement training algorithms.
• Collaborate with the verification team on firmware-hardware co-verification plans.
• Develop and debug firmware in RTL-based hardware simulations using C and Verilog.
• Debug firmware on silicon bring-up boards.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the DDR5 JEDEC specification and different DIMM configurations.
• Experience developing bare-metal firmware for high-speed SerDes or memory-interface physical-layer blocks.
• Strong knowledge of C for embedded software development and experience with relevant IDEs.
• Comfort debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystems.
• Knowledge of Shell, Perl, Python, and TCL scripting.
• Experience with verification EDA tools, including simulators and waveform viewers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position focused on developing technology for DDR5 PHY IP.
• Opportunity to collaborate across firmware, hardware design, memory architecture, and verification.