STAFF FIRMWARE APPLICATION ENGINEER

Experience Level: Individual Contributor
Job Type: Full-Time
Location:TX - Richardson, US
Requisition ID: 7491
Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers’ most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including consumer electronics, smart home/IoT, automotive, EVs, battery-powered appliances, network infrastructure, healthcare and aerospace/defense. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how our diverse and innovative team is helping connect, protect and power our planet.
Join Qorvo’s fast-growing Power Management division focusing on Power management, Intelligent motor control, and Battery management. The Battery management development team is seeking an Application and Firmware Engineer who is technically savvy and is excited about developing advanced firmware for leading edge Battery Management Systems (BMS). You will support existing products and customers interfacing with multiple departments as well as external customers which are all around the globe. With a wide range of responsibility, we’re looking for someone eager, ready to hit the ground running, and help our products drive Qorvo, Inc. to the market lead. This opportunity will allow you to open pathways to greater level of responsibility in the team and across the world.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work as firmware engineer, understanding customer needs, solving their problems.
• Develop embedded hardware support packages for Battery devices.
• Perform verification, correlation, and validation of developed code in the lab.
• Collaborate with worldwide application engineers to ensure device firmware matches with specification.
• Develop BMS Simulink models and use embedded coder to generate codes support advance ML algorithms.
• Write technical documents in the process of design, development, and technical support.
• Prepare training documents and train Application/Sales/FAE/Customer engineers.
• Utilize lab equipment to test and debug embedded code to support customers.
• Resolve Customer’s problems using either firmware or hardware changes.
• Write code, complete programming, testing and debugging of application board for customers including collecting data supporting ML performance gains.
• Act as a resource for customers and other team members, at times work independently.
• Support regular peer reviews and reviews with application, system, and design engineers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, power electronics, control engineering or related majors.
• 12+ years of experience with MCU programming using C, C++, familiarity with IDE’s, Keil, IAR, e2Studios, Visual Studios environments
• Experience with developing software for control systems in MATLAB Simulink, Python or similar
• Experience with firmware development for ARM Cortex M0, M23, M4 MCU’s
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, expression and problem analysis and debug ability, team spirit, and strong learning ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with version control systems like SmartGit, GitHub, or similar
• Knowledge of common embedded ML models SVN, CNN, DNN, kNN and bayes etc, and at familiar with the theory behind ML
• Prefer experience with analog circuitry and embedded systems firmware and executed ML embedded projects
• Ability to setup laboratory equipment for characterization of BMS products
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and accuracy
• Design experience in CMOS/BICMOS and high-level circuitry modeling are a plus
• Experience collaborating with remote engineering teams helpful
• Design reference and demo boards using schematic capture to design PCB’s using Cadence or Orcad’s tool suite
• Must have highly developed written and verbal cross-functional communication skills

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• Work as firmware engineer, understanding customer needs, solving their problems.
• Develop embedded hardware support packages for Battery devices.
• Perform verification, correlation, and validation of developed code in the lab.
• Collaborate with worldwide application engineers to ensure device firmware matches with specification.
• Develop BMS Simulink models and use embedded coder to generate codes support advance ML algorithms.
• Write technical documents in the process of design, development, and technical support.
• Prepare training documents and train Application/Sales/FAE/Customer engineers.
• Utilize lab equipment to test and debug embedded code to support customers.
• Resolve Customer’s problems using either firmware or hardware changes.
• Write code, complete programming, testing and debugging of application board for customers including collecting data supporting ML performance gains.
• Act as a resource for customers and other team members, at times work independently.
• Support regular peer reviews and reviews with application, system, and design engineers