Principal Engineer, Firmware

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JR17185 Principal Engineer, Firmware Development/Architecture

As a Principal Engineer, Firmware Development/Architecture at Micron Technology, Inc., you will develop high-performance controller firmware for innovative volatile and non-volatile memory systems. In this position, you will assist in evaluating, designing, building, bench testing, debugging, and failure analyzing firmware for new high-performance memory controllers and Solid State Drives that will increase performance, while reducing power, latency and SoC (System on Chip) complexity for the target markets. You can expect to work closely with firmware engineers, firmware test engineers, ASIC design engineers, system test engineers, system failure analysis engineers, product engineers, firmware tools developers to solve cross-functional product development issues.

**Responsibilities include, but not limited to**:

- Participate as a team member and work effectively to develop CXL-DDR controller firmware.
- Demonstrate proficiency in coding skills, failure analysis, and the use of tools that support these activities.
- Validate customer requirements and perform failure analysis on FW related issues.
- Develop structured source code targeting the embedded environment associated with state-of-the-art memory.
- Perform design verification using a variety of verification methods, including simulation and product testing.
- Participate in SCRUM/Agile processes and distributed code reviews.
- Develop new test tools and methods.
- Follow specific processes/procedures/work flows.
- Demonstrate the effective analysis of functional or performance issues with the firmware and hardware in test environments or target host systems.
- Technical communications will be required between other teams and the firmware team (both verbal and written).
- You will review, contribute to, and create clear documentation for deliverables that must meet both internal specifications/standards and SSD industry standards and specifications.

**Qualifications**:

- 7+ Years of experience with storage Firmware development
- Hands experience using Bus Analyzers and DDR Trace.
- Experience working with DDR4/5 - Scrub, Bring up, Calibration
- Experience developing SSD firmware
- Experience developing firmware for high speed interfaces PCIe, DDR, CXL, NVMe
- 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 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.
- 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.

**Education**:
BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering.

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