Western Digital · 16 hours ago
Staff Engineer - Firmware Development
Milpitas, CA
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$104K/yr - $148K/yr
4+ years exp
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Responsibilities
• SSD firmware design and development in an agile environment, involving multiprocessor (ARM/ARC), multithreading, RTOS, with C/assemble programming, in interaction with various cross IP teams, with active participation on failure analysis and root causing.
• Participate in full life cycle of development, starting from requirements, high/low level design, implementation, unit testing, and support required documentation.
• Firmware development shall be on FPGA, real form factor, OR on a software simulated model environment.
• Deliver on cutting-edge storage products with interfaces like NVMe/PCIe.
• Self-motivated to work both unsupervised and as part of an agile team. Collaborate to develop self and others within group.
• Actively participate in innovation/trade secrete activities.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelors + 4 yrs experience or Master +2 yrs experience required.
Strong knowledge in C/assembly, Data Structure, Algorithms, Multi-threaded programming
Familiarity with micro-controller architecture (ARM or ARC), embedded systems.
Firmware development on RTOS (e.g. uCOS/ThreadX/MQX/VxWorks/Embedded Linux)
Knowledge and experience in the use of bus analyzers, JTAG, emulators and other firmware debugging tools.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies, complex code and developing system, architecture view.
Strong aptitude and penchant for problem solving, algorithm design, system design, and complexity analysis skills.
You are comfortable and enjoy working with dynamic and ever evolving environments.
Technical mindset with great attention to detail and an ever positive, can-do attitude.
Demonstrate use of out-of-box thinking for creative solutions to highly sticky problems.
You have excellent interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication.
You'll be a fun and enthusiastic teammate who enjoys a challenge and celebrates success.
Requires 3 days per week in office
Preferred
Prior experience in SSD firmware development
Experience/Knowledge on NVMe and PCIe protocols
Highly skilled in GitHub and/or other similar SCM tools
Python scripting
Benefits
Paid vacation time
Paid sick leave
Medical/dental/vision insurance
Life, accident and disability insurance
Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
Employee assistance program
Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
Tuition reimbursement
Transit
The Applause Program
Employee stock purchase plan
Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
Western Digital
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
10,001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$901.37M2023-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $1.37M
2023-01-31Post Ipo Equity· $900M
2015-09-30Post Ipo Equity· undefined
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Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Financial Officer
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