Senior Embedded Software Engineer

at  AMBIQ MICRO INC

Requirements:

• MS in ECE or Computer Science and 3+ years of experience or BS ECE/CS with 5+ years of experience;
• Deep understanding of ARM architectures, M-profile preferred;
• Deep understanding of embedded RTOS required, Zephyr and FreeRTOS preferred;
• Experience with developing embedded MCU code in C and assembly language on Arm Cortex-M Processors;
• Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse, O-zone or other;
• Familiarity with MCU peripherals such as SPI, I2C, UART etc.;
• Good hands-on experience on lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers etc. for debugging issues;
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and collaboration tools;
• Experience with source code control systems (git) required;
• Understanding of software testing and test automation principles;
• Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug;
• Experience with scripting languages required and python experience is specifically desirable;
• Strong communication and documentation skills

• Work with our software architects to define the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and board support package (BSP) of the SDK.
• Design, develop and maintain HAL interfaces for MCU common blocks, such as Cache, MPU, TCM, MRAM/Flash, clock, power and MCU control etc.
• Design, develop and maintain examples and software testcases for MCU common blocks.
• Take a key role in the pre-silicon verification on FPGA, as well as post-silicon bring up, verification, and debug focusing on MCU core and common blocks.
• Design, develop and maintain real-time OS ports for Ambiq MCUs.
• Support design verification (DV) and validation engineers, field engineers, and key customers as needed.

Requirements:

• MS in ECE or Computer Science and 3+ years of experience or BS ECE/CS with 5+ years of experience;
• Deep understanding of ARM architectures, M-profile preferred;
• Deep understanding of embedded RTOS required, Zephyr and FreeRTOS preferred;
• Experience with developing embedded MCU code in C and assembly language on Arm Cortex-M Processors;
• Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse, O-zone or other;
• Familiarity with MCU peripherals such as SPI, I2C, UART etc.;
• Good hands-on experience on lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers etc. for debugging issues;
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and collaboration tools;
• Experience with source code control systems (git) required;
• Understanding of software testing and test automation principles;
• Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug;
• Experience with scripting languages required and python experience is specifically desirable;
• Strong communication and documentation skills.