Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional Firmware Engineer to join our Connectivity Business Unit team in North America. Candidates will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to develop products that make data faster and safer.

The goal is to create scalable and optimized software systems. The candidate needs to be deeply hands-on and capable of working independently and in a team with experienced firmware engineers. The individual will execute the embedded software development lifecycle for firmware running on ARM / RISCv CPUs and a Real-Time Operating System. The ideal individual will possess prior experience with electronics hardware – especially memory, and CPU interface integration IP within System-On-Chips (SoC). The candidate needs to have solid experience with embedded system bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting. The candidate will be expected to interact extensively in a tight team environment with employees in other disciplines and geographies.

Position can be located in: Canada (Vancouver, Montreal)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software for embedded devices and systems from the requirements stage to commercial deployment of the product.
• Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources.
• Design, develop, code, test and debug system software.
• Integrate and validate new product designs.
• Develop, test, and debug software using pre silicon development platforms.
• Support embedded software during post silicon bring-up effort.
• Interface and work closely with IP designers, integrators, hardware designers, and validation engineers.
• Create design documents for software architectures and algorithms.
• Participate in code and software design reviews, to ensure adherence to coding convention and best practices.
• Provide training, mentorship and coaching to less experienced software developers.

Qualifications

• BS or higher degrees preferred (Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with Software experience).
• Minimum 5 years experience in developing and debugging embedded software preferred
• Strong C/C++ design and programming skills.
• Experience developing device drivers and low-level code for hardware peripherals such as timers, UART, GPIO, DMA, and serial interfaces.
• Experience with real time OS techniques including preemptive multi-tasking schedulers, multi-threaded execution, semaphores, mutexes, and interrupts.

• Proficient in writing performance optimized code for CPU and memory constrained environments.
• Experience with memory RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) features, including error detection and correction.
• Experience with embedded security features, such as hardware root of trust, secure boot, and key authentication.
• Ability to follow guidance from more senior members of the team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in small teams.

Desired Skills:

• Experience writing software for embedded ARM or RISCv platforms, System-On-Chip (SoC), or x86 platforms.
• Scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience using DDR technologies such as PMIC, RCD, SPD, DDR4, DDR5, and DDR PHYs.
• Experience with PCIe, CXL, NVMe, I3C, QSPI.
• Experience writing software to implement protocols such as SPDM, SMBus, Xmodem.
• Hardware bring-up experience using JTAG debug tools.
• Experience with PCB and full system debug.
• Experience working in lean development organizations and/or startups.

About Rambus

With 30 years of innovation and semiconductor expertise, Rambus leads the industry with products and solutions speed performance, expand capacity and improve security for today's most demanding applications. From data center and edge to artificial intelligence and automotive, our interface and security IP, and memory interface chips enable SoC and system designers to deliver their vision of the future.

Rambus offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, bonus, equity and employee benefits.

Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may let us know in the application.
For more information about Rambus, visit rambus.com. For additional information on life at Rambus and our current openings, check out rambus.com/careers/.

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