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Company

Cisco Meraki · 9 hours ago

Embedded Firmware Engineer, MV

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$119K/yr - $203K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Work on new product projects from software project scoping and timelines, block-diagram concepts, to prototype boards that don’t boot, all the way to shipping product.

Collaborate with our Hardware Engineering team on component selection and high-level architecture for new Meraki products.

Collaborate with our manufacturing partners to develop secure, reliable, and scalable manufacturing processes.

Integrate vendor board support packages and software development kits with our firmware and build system.

Develop, port, and debug Linux device drivers.

When things don’t go quite as planned—a board doesn’t boot, an LED doesn’t light, video doesn’t stream—use a JTAG debugger or logic analyzer or work with the hardware team to debug the problem.

Collaborate with other Platform Bring-up Engineers across product teams to continually improve our firmware design, development, and deployment practices.

Qualification

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C programmingC++ programmingEmbedded systems developmentLinux device driversUnix-based OSNetwork fundamentalsSystems architectureMemory hierarchyStorage subsystemsLANsRoutingI2CSPIMDIOReading schematicsData sheetsMulti-threaded programmingNetwork protocol analyzersLogic analyzersHardware debuggersSource-level debuggersImage sensorsGPUsISPsDSPsH.264 encodingVideo encoding technologiesCollaborative skills

Required

5+ years professional (or comparable) experience programming in C or C++.

Firm knowledge of embedded systems development concepts, including cross-platform development and build tools (GNU toolchain, OpenWRT, buildroot, Yocto), bootloaders (U-Boot, coreboot, UEFI), kernel configuration, device drivers, device trees.

Strong experience executing embedded system firmware tasks from engineering concept to product delivery.

Strong Problem Solving Skills using C++.

Good understanding of unix based OS and Network fundamentals.

Effective Collaborative and Communication skills.

Strong systems and networking foundational knowledge (systems architecture, memory hierarchy, storage subsystems, LANs, routing).

Know common bus protocols like I2C, SPI, and MDIO.

Experience reading schematics and data sheets.

Preferred

An appetite for learning about software and systems, and an interest in breaking things to learn how to make them better.

Upstreaming Linux patches.

Experience with multi-threaded or parallel programming.

Comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack.

Experience writing device drivers.

Experience with image sensors, GPUs, ISPs, DSPs, h.264 and other video encoding technologies.