Principal Engineer

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JR38864 Principal Engineer - Firmware Development

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

As a Principal Firmware Engineer at Micron Technology, Inc., you will build groundbreaking high-performance controller firmware for volatile and non-volatile memory systems. You will assist in the evaluation, creation, build, bench testing, debugging, and failure analyzes of firmware for new high-performance memory controllers and Solid State Drives (SSD) that will improve performance, while reducing power, latency and SoC (System on Chip) complexity for the target sectors. You can expect to partner multi-disciplinary Engineers seek multi-functional product development issues. You will triage failures, file bug reports, and help the development teams with isolating issues.

Responsibiities:

- Conducts analysis, designs, performs programming, debugs and modifies software.
- Utilizes analog and digital hardware and software operating systems. Typically programs in machine language,assembly language and high level languages, (e.g., C, C++)

**Requirements**:

- 7+ Years of proven experience with storage Firmware development and debug using protocol analyzer.
- 7+ Years of Knowledge or working experience with Nand flash
- Strong working knowledge of firmware development, verification, system failure analysis, embedded systems design and real time embedded systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to find creative solutions to difficult problems.
- Strong working knowledge of software engineering principles and designing and developing firmware using assembly and C/C++ programming.
- Using development tools and IDE's such as MS Visual Studio, Slick Edit, SourcePoint and Realview.
- Problem re-creation and trapping
- Logging and diagnostics
- Experience with digital hardware design and test equipment such as In-Circuit Emulators (ICE) and logic/bus analyzers
- Strong working knowledge analyzing complex firmware and hardware issues.
- Strong knowledge working identifying and optimizing performance of critical algorithms.
- Experience in the storage industry in SSD, HDD, storage systems, or a related technology
- Experience in Security domain is preferred for this position
- Working knowledge of ARM/ARC Microprocessors, with experience on ARC or ARM Cortex.
- Knowledge of the Agile software development process life cycle.
- Strong knowledge of structured firmware development process and life cycle.
- Strong skills in communicating complex technical ideas/concepts.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and communicate effectively (written and verbal) across multiple locations and teams.

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