Embedded Firmware Engineer – Storage Systems

Westerndigital; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Westerndigital is seeking a passionate Embedded Firmware Engineer to design, develop and maintain firmware for enterprise HDD storage. You will work with a cross-functional team to implement data structures, algorithms, and drivers for hardware cores using C++ and Python in an Agile setting.

You will participate in Scrum activities, collaborate across hardware and software platforms, and contribute to planning investigations from problem statements to conclusions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Fresh graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Knowledge in C/C++, object‑oriented programming, Python, data structures and algorithms.
• Capable of quickly learning new firmware, hardware, systems, tools, and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, integrate and maintain quality firmware for eHDD using best practices like unit test, CI and Agile methodologies.
• Design and implementation of data structures, software algorithms, data path, and drivers for hardware cores using latest standards C++ and Python.
• Participate in Scrum & Agile processes to bring up new hardware and develop embedded firmware for data storage products.
• Collaborate and design solutions for challenging yet unique problems across hardware and software platforms, including servers, RAID, and various operating systems (Windows and Linux).
• Participate in planning and coordinating significant technical investigations from problem statements to conclusions.
• Creates design documents pertinent to the various phases of firmware development.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Embedded systems

ARM architecture

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer/Electronics Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Bus analyzers

Emulators

Firmware debugging tools

Job description

Westerndigital is seeking a passionate Embedded Firmware Engineer to design, develop and maintain firmware for enterprise HDD storage. You will work with a cross-functional team to implement data structures, algorithms, and drivers for hardware cores using C++ and Python in an Agile setting.

You will participate in Scrum activities, collaborate across hardware and software platforms, and contribute to planning investigations from problem statements to conclusions.