Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering

Company Description

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Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

• Seeking an experienced Embedded FW Developer for work on NVMe over Fabrics Controllers. Candidate should have strong knowledge and experience with all aspects of Embedded FW development – including Definition, Design, Implementation, Verification, and Troubleshooting.

  ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coding, debugging, and integrating firmware, as well as the integration, regression, and requirement testing of complex SW/HW/ASIC/FPGA systems
• Analyze requirements to determine the feasibility of design and schedule
• Consult with ASIC/HW/FW engineers to evaluate interface between hardware and firmware, and operational and performance requirements of the overall system
• Develop firmware testing along with firmware development
• Document Firmware Architecture
• Review FW test plans and provide input
• Automation using scripting for efficiency, where relevant.

Qualifications

• BSCE Computer Engineering or BSCS Computer Science degree MUST HAVE 10+ years of related experience in Embedded Firmware development
• Detailed knowledge of RTOS and microprocessor architecture and must be comfortable working with ASIC hardware
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, RoCE RDMA Protocols, Ethernet, PCIe and NVMe 
• Designing, developing, and debugging of multi-threaded, real-time, embedded firmware applications
• Programming with C, C++, Python, and assembly language
• Proficiency in DMA, interrupt handlers, stack analysis, context switching
• Debugging new hardware and new firmware using logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and JTAG interfaces

• SKILLS

• Using best-practice firmware engineering principles
• Knowledge in NVMe Over Fabrics and storage network protocols is a plus
• Design Experience with Cryptography (IPSec/TLS), Root of Trust (RoT) items like Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Download, Secure Debug, Authentication and Attestation is a plus

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12/24/24, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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