Firmware Engineer II

Cadence Design Systems
Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringSkills: ["C","Embedded","Debugging","RTL","Verilog","Shell","Perl","Python","TCL","Waveform viewing","Firmware","Microcontrollers"]

Join Cadence’s DDR PHY IP Front End Design team to design and implement firmware for DDR5 PHYs using microcontrollers. You’ll write bare-metal C code, develop low-level APIs, and collaborate with hardware and verification teams to derive training algorithms, perform firmware-hardware co-verification, and debug on RTL simulations and silicon bring-up boards.

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Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems
3 months ago

Firmware Engineer II

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Job Summary

Join Cadence’s DDR PHY IP Front End Design team to design and implement firmware for DDR5 PHYs using microcontrollers. You’ll write bare-metal C code, develop low-level APIs, and collaborate with hardware and verification teams to derive training algorithms, perform firmware-hardware co-verification, and debug on RTL simulations and silicon bring-up boards.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers with bare-metal programming and low-level APIs
  • •Collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them
  • •Work with the verification team to define firmware-hardware co-verification plans
  • •Develop and debug firmware in RTL-based hardware simulations (C + Verilog)
  • •Debug firmware on silicon bring-up boards

Key Requirements

  • •Good knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC specification and DIMM configurations
Skills:CEmbeddedDebuggingRTLVerilogShellPerlPythonTCLWaveform viewingFirmwareMicrocontrollers
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CVerilogShellPerlPythonTCLDDR5JEDECEmbeddedMicrocontrollers

Company Brief

Cadence Design Systems
Provides electronic design automation (EDA) software, IP, and services for semiconductor and systems companies to design, verify, and implement integrated circuits, systems-on-chip, and electronic systems across industries including communications, automotive, and consumer electronics.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1988
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