Principal Firmware Engineer

3 days ago


San Jose, California, United States Western Digital Full time

Principal Firmware Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time

Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Define overall system firmware architecture for implementing high performance HDD actuator control on dynamic control platforms
Define the firmware & associated tool designs including processes for build, test and benchmarking working together with stakeholders and development teams
Implement and demonstrate prototype firmware designs on target hardware platforms, while working closely with internal and external stakeholders
Conduct demonstrations of end-to-end HDD dynamic control on simulated and field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping platforms for internal and external stakeholders
Propose and specify novel hardware accelerators and firmware optimizations for use with system-on-chip (SoC) architectures
Work closely with all stakeholders on the implementation of HDD real-time motion and parameter control microarchitecture, instruction set architecture, firmware architecture & tool chain associated
Participate in team meetings and influence hardware, firmware & associated tooling development with enough communication for geographically distributed international development team to support business and technical objectives
Negotiate with stakeholders about priorities
Ensure strong execution of identified hardware, firmware & associated tools strategy
Qualifications
REQUIRED

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. Master's degree or relevant certification desirable. PhD or specialist or relevant certification with platform architecture highly desirable
10+ years of experience in embedded firmware architecture and development
Experience with linear algebra applications in digital filtering, convolution, digital control and digital signal processing (DSP) systems.
Experience in modeling, analysis and simulation of linear algebra/Digital Control Systems/DSP solutions using Matlab/Python/C++
Experience in firmware architecture and design of DSP systems/accelerators targeted for FPGAs and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)
Experience in architecture and design of embedded systems using Xilinx Microblaze, ARM and RiscV CPUs, system partitioning, co-simulation and testing
Rich experience programming in C, C++, Assembly language, System Verilog
Experience in Linux, Docker, GNU GCC/LLVM Compilers, GDB, Make utilities
Experience scripting in Matlab, Python and Bash. Tcl/Tk, Perl is a plus
Experience as project leader with strong technical leadership and commitment to results
Experience working in Agile teams with experience in roles such as Scrum Master (SM) or Product Owner (PO) desirable
SKILLS

Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills (including presentation skills) across worldwide engineering team, in English



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