Firmware - Firmware Lead

Eliyan; Toronto, Vancouver; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading chiplet startup in Toronto is seeking a Firmware Lead to develop innovative technologies shaping the future of chiplet-based systems. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in firmware development, especially in SerDes/IO/PHY products, and a strong understanding of CMIS standards. Responsibilities include defining development environments, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring product quality. This role offers an onsite work environment with extensive benefits.

Benefits

Excellent benefits

Fun work environment

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in bringing production quality firmware to market.
• 3+ years of firmware experience in Ethernet, DDR, or PCIe PHY designs.
• Expert knowledge of CMIS and module management.

Responsibilities

• Define FW development environments and methodologies.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver customer-ready products.
• Lead and mentor engineers in a startup environment.

Skills

C/C++ development

Firmware development for PHY products

CMIS standards

Team leadership

Analogue and digital design collaboration

Education

M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Join the leading chiplet startup! As an Eliyan FW Lead, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow’s chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will be developing FW for best-in-class PHYs and Controllers. You will work with a cross-functional team of experts that operate from first principles, innovate and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits. ONSITE M-F.

Key Responsibilities

• Define state-of-the-art FW development environment spanning compilers, build and source code control tools
• Design, develop, and test C/C++ based functions on pre-silicon verification environment, including hardware emulation platforms, through chip bring-up
• Define and implement efficient methodologies to extract key performance indicators and telemetry for various PHY operating modes
• Define customer facing API interfaces for PHY and controller products
• Define and support implementation of a flexible FW QA infrastructure for automated regressions of pre-silicon, emulation, and post-silicon test plans
• Work with cross functional teams across the company to deliver customer-ready products
• Interview and ability to attract technically strong engineers for supporting various functions of FW deployment
• Work with analog and digital teams during design and post-silicon bring-up phases for day 1 end-to-end path bring-up / debug
• Develop plans and track progress to maintain aggressive development and deployment timelines
• Own FW architecture definition documentation and schedule cross-functional reviews
• Lead CMIS implementation, and compliance efforts for PHY and controller products, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices
• Full ownership of FW, API and customer specific debug GUI infrastructure

Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and related fields, or equivalent
• Minimum twelve years’ experience leading and delivering production quality FW on SerDes/IO/PHY products
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with firmware development for one of Ethernet, DDR, or PCIe PHY designs
• Expert-level knowledge of CMIS (Common Management Interface Specification) standards and implementation – module management for form factors such as QSFP-DD, OSFP, OSFP-XD
• Strong bias for innovations across all aspects of FW design including effectively collaborating with chip architects and designs for efficient HW/SW partitioning
• Strong technical foundation and experience with analog, DSP and controller products
• Experience mentoring engineers and managing small teams (4-5 people) preferred
• Track record of leading small teams in a start-up like environment to successful delivery of products into production
• Full understanding of established and emerging design methodologies and flows
• Knowledge of DRAM Controllers, DRAM PHYs, HBM Memory a plus