Lead /Principal Firmware Engineer

Cadence; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence is seeking a Senior Principal Firmware Engineer to join a dynamic team developing physical layer IPs for high-speed serial-link protocols, applied to Die-2-Die and Chiplet Interconnects. The role requires independence, initiative, and potential project leadership across firmware architecture, implementation, verification, testing, and deployment.

The successful candidate should have strong C programming and embedded firmware skills, experience with microcontrollers, and the ability to

Qualifications

• BE/BTECH/ME/MTECH or Equivalent Degree is required.
• Experience in firmware development for high-speed interfaces is preferred.
• Strong C and embedded programming skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop firmware for DDR PHY using microcontrollers.
• Develop low-level APIs and Bare-metal firmware in C.
• Collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects.
• Work with verification team for firmware-hardware co-verification plans.
• Support debugging of firmware-based simulations and silicon bring-up.

Skills

Firmware development

C programming

Bare-metal

Embedded systems

DDR PHY

Microcontrollers

Hardware collaboration

Simulation/Emulation

Firmware debugging

Education

BE/BTECH/ME/MTECH or Equivalent Degree

Job description

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and healt

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success.
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests.
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

About the Role

Senior Principal Firmware Engineer. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team of experienced engineers developing physical layer IP’s for industry-standard high-speed serial-link protocols, as applied to Die-2_die and Chiplet Interconnects. The successful candidate will ideally be a highly motivated self-starter who is able to work independently to complete assigned tasks and can also contribute to project leadership. It is expected that the candidate will contribute during all phases of firmware development for high speed Die-2-Die, UCIe IPs from firmware architecture development to implementation, verification, testing and customer deployment.

Responsibilities

• Job Description for Firmware
• Experince-2-14 yrs
• Developing firmware for DDR PHY using microcontrollers
• Responsible for developing firmware in C and similar Embedded programming languages typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.
• Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive algorithms and implement them.
• Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
• experince in Simulation or Emulation
• Support debug of firmware-based simulations in hardware behavioral simulations (RTL simulations with firmware for verification)
• Support debugging issues on emulation and Silicon bring-up boards.
• Should have good understanding on protocols, having knowledge on DDR protocol is advantage

Qualifications

• BE/BTECH/ME/METCH or Equivalent Degree

Required Skills

• Developing firmware for DDR PHY using microcontrollers
• Firmware development in C and similar Embedded programming languages
• Bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers
• Collaboration with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects
• Collaboration with verification team for firmware-hardware co-verification plan
• Experience in Simulation or Emulation
• Debug of firmware-based simulations in hardware behavioral simulations (RTL simulations with firmware for verification)
• Debugging issues on emulation and Silicon bring-up boards