Senior Firmware Engineer — Digital Beamforming ASICs

Blue Origin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Job summary

Blue Origin is developing low-level firmware for Digital Beamforming ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with hardware and communications teams to implement, integrate, and validate firmware controlling DBF silicon.

Ideal candidates have a decade of firmware experience, strong C skills, and a track record of hardware/software integration, debugging embedded systems, and pre-/post-silicon work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in firmware development.
• Experience developing software in C.
• Experience writing software that directly controls hardware, such as firmware, kernel device drivers, or low-level embedded code.
• Experience debugging and validating embedded firmware and hardware/software interactions.

Responsibilities

• Develop ROM code and runtime firmware for Digital Beamforming (DBF) ASICs.
• Develop and support firmware for beam pointing, analog calibration, FEIC management, SerDes link management, secure boot, telemetry, and sideband control of DBF ASICs.
• Work closely with hardware and communications systems engineers to define and implement firmware and hardware interfaces.
• Support pre-silicon firmware development, integration, and validation.
• Support post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and validation of custom DBF ASICs.

Skills

Firmware development

C programming

Embedded systems

Hardware interface

Debugging firmware

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

QEMU

Palladium

ZeBu

Zephyr

Job description

Blue Origin is developing low-level firmware for Digital Beamforming ASICs in the TeraWave system. You will collaborate with hardware and communications teams to implement, integrate, and validate firmware controlling DBF silicon.

Ideal candidates have a decade of firmware experience, strong C skills, and a track record of hardware/software integration, debugging embedded systems, and pre-/post-silicon work.