Linux BSP Engineer

Samsung Electronics America; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) Bangalore seeks a firmware engineer to develop firmware, bootloaders, and device drivers for ARM-based SOCs used in advanced FAB processes. You will work on pre-silicon and post-silicon bring-up, plus performance optimizations and hardware-software integration.

Ideal candidates have 4–12 years of experience in firmware and systems programming, with hands-on work on LPDDR5x/HBM3, Zebu emulation, and debugging tools such as Trace32 and Verdi.

Qualifications

• System level understanding of ARM based SOC.
• Experience developing firmware and bootloaders for SOCs.

Responsibilities

• Develop firmware, bootloaders, and Linux/RTOS device drivers.
• Perform power and performance optimizations for customer use cases.
• Assist in pre/post-silicon bring-up and silicon screening (SLT).

Skills

ARM-based SoC

Bare-metal programming

Firmware development

Debugging tools

LPDDR5x bring-up

HBM3 bring-up

Zebu Emulation

Cache coherency

Education

B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech

Tools

Zebu Emulation

Trace32

Verdi

Waveform

Job description

Position Summary

About Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) With a wide range of industry-leading semiconductor solutions, we are enabling innovative growth in market segments in component solutions, featuring industry-leading technologies in System LSI, Memory and Foundry. Our engineers are offered a foundation to work on cutting-edge technologies such as Foundation IP Design, Mobile SoCs, Storage Solutions, AI/ML, 5G/ 6G solutions, Neural processors, Serial Interfaces, Multimedia IPs and much more. As one of the largest R&D centers outside Korea for Samsung Electronics, we take pride in our ability to work on some of the cutting edge technologies. Our engineers get to work across diverse domains, projects, products, clients, people and countries, and conduct research in new and emerging technology areas. Innovation and creativity are highly valued at this innovation hub, as we strive towards providing high reliability; high performance and value added services that enable Samsung Electronics deliver world-class products.

Role and Responsibilities

SSIR Foundry System SW Team in india owns software development for SOCs which are built using advanced FAB technologies like 2nm to 7nm having HW IPs (LPDDR5x,HBM3,HBM4,PCIe, MIPI-CSI, USB, Multimedia Codec Accelerators), Graphical Processors (Mali GPUs), General purpose processors (All ARM profiles, RISC-V). Software development of the team involves developing Firmware, Bootloaders, Linux/RTOS device drivers, Power/Peformance Optimizations for customer use case, Development of Firmware used for screening of Silicon in FAB process (SLT).

Required Skills

• System level understanding of ARM based SOC.
• Hands on experience in bare metal programming and firmware code development.
• Expert in LPDDR5 & HBM3 bring up in pre-silicon and post-silicon envirnoment.
• Working experience on Zebu Emulation.
• Very good understanding of caching, coherency, Interleaving and trustzone.
• Working experience in post-silicon board bring up.
• Strong debugging skills based on trace32, waveform, verdi.

Good to Have Skills

• RISC-V based SOC architecture.
• Protocol knowledge of UART, SPI, I2C.
• Understanding of emulation transactors of low speed & high speed IPs

Skills and Qualifications

Experience - 4 to 12 years Qualifications B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech/M.E

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