Engineer - Embedded Firmware

11 hours ago

San Jose, CA, United States Ayar Labs Full time
Engineer, Embedded Firmware

Location: San Jose, CA (on-site)

Ayar Labs is revolutionizing the world of optical interconnect technology with our cutting-edge electro-photonic chips We are seeking an exceptional Firmware Engineer to drive firmware design from inception to customer deployment, ensuring seamless hardware validation and integration.

This is a unique opportunity to leverage your expertise in embedded systems, multi-chip package environments, and high-speed SerDes to shape the future of optical interconnect.

Essential Functions:
  • Design a general computing platform: Initialize and control the platform's hardware (like the CPU, memory and I/O devices) and load the operating system, making the platform ready for use.
  • Firmware Architecture: Collaborate closely with embedded firmware, system hardware and AISC engineers to develop sophisticated platform solutions and meet requirements for our digital and photonic multi-chip and laser systems.
  • Drive platform firmware development: Design, develop, and optimize firmware for controlling complex systems with the electronic-photonic chips and laser.
  • Provide Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, contributing to their professional growth and development.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner effectively with diverse teams, including hardware, software, validation and systems engineers, to achieve project goals.
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or a related field with 1+ years of experience.
  • Proven expertise in bare-metal platform firmware development, with strong programming skills in C, C++ and python.
  • Industry experience with CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) communication protocol.
  • Hands-on, proactive approach with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
  • Experience with various microcontrollers (e.g., STM, Microchip) and firmware debugging tools.
  • Experience with hardware schematics.
  • Experience with driver development (e.g., ADC/ DAC).
  • Experience with communication protocols (e.g., I2C, SPI, USB, UART).
  • Proficiency with modern version control workflows (e.g., Git).
  • Familiarity with project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in platform firmware development for laser applications.
  • Experience in firmware development for high-speed electronics and photonics applications.
  • Experience in scripting with high level language like Python.
  • Experience with Make-based build flows.
  • Ability to own architecture and development of firmware modules from scratch.


Salary range: $120,000 - $160,000

NOTE TO RECRUITERS:
Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don't send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.

About Ayar Labs:

At Ayar Labs we're about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We're unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today's electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O. This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.
With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.
We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts. We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins. Join our team and experience the possibilities.
Resources:
Executives from Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES share their thoughts on Ayar Labs and the promise of in-package optical I/O (video)
Ayar Labs in the News and Recent announcements
LinkedIn and Twitter

Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, sex, national origin, race, color, ethnicity, creed, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. It is the policy of Ayar Labs to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. Veterans are more than welcome and encouraged to apply.

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