Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Low-Power Sensing SoCs

Sierra Wireless; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Semtech Corporation in San Diego, CA is seeking a Senior Embedded Firmware Design Engineer to design, develop, and validate firmware for high-accuracy, low-power sensing platforms in a hybrid work setting. You will work on mixed-signal sensing SoCs with on-chip ADCs, proximity, and gesture capabilities, collaborating with application, system, digital hardware, and analog teams.

The role includes innovation leadership, mentoring junior engineers, pre-silicon and post-silicon work, and defining

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of embedded firmware experience
• Strong knowledge of MCU based systems (ARM, RISC-V, PIC, STM32)
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Experience with I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI, JTAG, PCIe
• Ability to mentor and lead junior engineers

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, verify and optimize embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits.
• Define pre-silicon simulation validation, unit and regression testing, debug, emulation, and FPGA prototyping.
• Interface with system, digital hardware, analog, verification and cross functional teams.
• Provide post-silicon customer technical support, RMA analysis and field issue resolution.
• Mentor and supervise junior engineers.

Skills

Embedded firmware

ARM MCU

C/C++

Python

Debugging

System-level design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

FPGAs

Logic analyzers

Oscilloscopes

AI coding tools

Development boards

Job description

Semtech Corporation in San Diego, CA is seeking a Senior Embedded Firmware Design Engineer to design, develop, and validate firmware for high-accuracy, low-power sensing platforms in a hybrid work setting. You will work on mixed-signal sensing SoCs with on-chip ADCs, proximity, and gesture capabilities, collaborating with application, system, digital hardware, and analog teams.

The role includes innovation leadership, mentoring junior engineers, pre-silicon and post-silicon work, and defining