Engineer II, Firmware Engineering

Seagate International Headquarters Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Seagate Software Engineering in Singapore seeks an embedded firmware engineer to design, validate, and deploy firmware for storage devices. You will collaborate with a global team to deliver robust firmware across platforms.

The role emphasizes C development, debugging, hardware interaction, and performance optimization, with opportunities to grow expertise in embedded systems and storage technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals and data structures.
• Proficiency in one or more languages (C, Python) and embedded systems concepts.
• Experience with hardware-software interaction and debugging embedded firmware.

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded firmware in C for storage devices and related product platforms.
• Validate hardware features and write firmware drivers to interface with them.
• Collaborate with global team to resolve issues and improve firmware quality.
• Contribute to firmware features that enhance functionality and performance.
• Develop, integrate, debug, and maintain firmware across product development phases.

Skills

C

Python

Firmware debugging

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Emulators

Oscilloscopes

Version control

Profiling tools

Job description

About our group

Seagate Software Engineering is seeking candidates in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of embedded firmware development for storage products. Seagate is an industry leader in data storage solutions, enabling the world to store, manage, and protect digital content. The team architects, designs, develops, validates, and enables innovative firmware solutions across product and solution segments for customers and partners.

About the role - you will

Successful candidates will join a worldwide Software Engineering team architecting, developing, validating, and deploying embedded firmware for Seagate storage products. Take this opportunity to grow your career and contribute to firmware solutions that improve product quality, reliability, performance, and customer value.

• Develop embedded firmware in C for storage devices and related product platforms
• Validate new and existing hardware features and write firmware drivers to control and interface with them
• Work with global team on resolving problems detected internally or externally
• Exercise your independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Contribute to firmware features that improve product functionality, reliability, performance, and manufacturability
• Develop, integrate, debug, and maintain firmware features across product development phases
• Optimize and improve existing firmware stacks, libraries, and platform components

About you

The successful candidate will be part of the Seagate Software Engineering team in Singapore. This role will focus on embedded firmware development, validation, debugging, and integration for storage products. The candidate should demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining architecture and firmware solutions. Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments.

Your experience includes

• Fluent programming capabilities in one or more languages such as C, Python, etc.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and practical problem-solving techniques

• Demonstrate problem solving capabilities and able to readily apply critical thinking.
• Demonstrate communication skills and ability to articulate technical issues.
• Understanding of micro-controller and its interaction with firmware.

• Understanding of embedded systems concepts, firmware architecture, hardware-software interaction, and low-level debugging
• Strong interest in firmware development, product validation, performance optimization, and solving complex engineering problems

• Working Experience using firmware and hardware development tools (emulators, trace, version control, oscilloscopes, compilers, linkers, and analyzers).
• Self-motivated and be able to comprehend and apply new knowledge quickly and effectively on the job.

• Interest in working with storage systems, embedded platforms, firmware development processes, and industry standards
• Familiarity with using AI-assisted coding tools to improve development productivity, code understanding, debugging, test creation, and documentation

Location

Location: Shugart, Singapore
Travel: None