Staff / Sr Staff Engineer - System Software

MediaTek; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Sick Leave

Vacation time

Parental leave

401K

Job summary

MediaTek Research Lab Inc. in San Diego seeks a senior software engineer to bring up new platform boards and verify major functions independently.

You will handle regular software releases and coordinate with customers and internal teams to drive timely resolutions, including hands-on issue analysis and debugging. Ideal candidates will have 10+ years of C/C++ and SoC system software development experience, plus strong knowledge of buses (I2C/SPI/UART/GPIO/USB/PCIe/SDIO).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, CS, or related field.
• 10+ years of C/C++ programming experience.
• 10+ years of SoC system software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of I2C/SPI/UART/GPIO, USB, PCIe, SDIO.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize.

Responsibilities

• Bring up new platform boards and verify major functions independently.
• Regular software release and resolving branch conflicts.
• Customer Issue Tracking & Coordination with customers and internal teams to drive timely resolution; hands-on analysis and debugging.
• Issue Replication & Testing to support root-cause analysis.

Skills

C/C++ programming

SoC software development

Multitasking

Problem solving

On-site support

Python

Java

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields

Tools

Python

Java

Shell scripting

Job description

Category

Software

Location

San Diego, CA

Experience

More than 8 Years Work Expe.

Job Description

• Bring up new platform boards and verify the major functions independently
• Regular software release and multiple branch conflict resolving
• Customer Issue Tracking & Coordination: Track customer issues and coordinate with customer and internal support teams to drive timely resolution. Hand-on issue analyzing, triaging, and debugging to solve system issues/requests.
• Issue Replication & Testing: Replicate and test reported issues to support root-cause analysis.

Main Requirements and Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• 10+ year of C/C++ programming experience
• 10+ years of System-on-Chip (SoC) system software development experience
• Strong knowledge of common peripheral buses (I2C/SPI/UART/GPIO, USB, PCIe, SDIO and so on)
• Proactive and positive attitude to solve challenging and complicated problems
• Multitasking: Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• Python, Java, and shell script programming language
• Working knowledge of SoC architecture and operating system including task scheduling, memory hierarchy, MMU, interrupt handling and booting sequence
• Demonstrated system software development experience and hands-on abilities including system performance optimization and system issue analysis
• Experience in modern PC industry, bootloader (UEFI), Windows driver and Windows debugging
• Perform power analysis and optimization for MediaTek SoC platforms used in Compute products. Measure/Optimize power consumption for HoBL use cases while balancing performance, power efficiency, and thermal management. Identify power hotspots and collaborate with driver and low-power teams to implement and validate optimization solutions.
• The ideal candidate should be a fast learner, self-motivated, resilient under pressure, and capable of providing on-site technical support to customers.
• Salary Range: $150,000- $244,000
• Employee may be eligible for performance bonus, short and long term incentive programs. Actual total compensation will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience and qualifications. In addition, MediaTek provides a variety of benefits including comprehensive health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays, Sick Leave, Vacation time, Parental leave, 401K and more.
• MediaTek is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.