Sr. Principal Firmware Engineer

Description

Are you looking for the next step to advance your career in the world of audio technology? Skyworks is seeking team members to help innovate market-specific mixed-signal system on chips (SoCs) for audio and voice applications spanning smart speakers and microphones, wired/wireless headsets, virtual assistants and intelligent gaming controllers. Our advanced audio, voice, speech and artificial intelligent solutions combine breakthrough ultra-low power analog circuits, highly efficient power management systems and custom hardware accelerators to enable smart acoustic signal processing and AI functionality. Come be part of a team that is changing the way the world communicates and who is at the forefront of audio and voice technology innovation! Our proprietary technology achieves the highest level of integration in the industry and sets a new performance standard for low power consumption and minimal footprint.

Responsibilities

• Create mixed signal ASICs targeted at audio and wireless audio applications.
• These are highly integrated designs incorporating audio codecs, amplifiers, battery chargers, DSP processors, peripherals, and power control systems that support a wide range of communication interfaces.
• The Firmware group works with the hardware team to help specify these custom systems. From there, we create the core operating system and driver components and follow this through to finished silicon and SDK packages that we provide to application teams.
• Our goal is to address all the elements the processor controls and simplify the task of using these parts in a wide range of designs.
• Your role will be as an embedded firmware designer as part of this design group, writing, testing and debugging code for embedded processors on our SoCs. Our engineering team works closely to solve difficult problems, and your ability to collaborate with others will be important to the success of the projects to which you contribute.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s 15+ year or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 12+ years of experience
• 10+ years’ experience in programming with C and assembly in deeply embedded systems
• 6+ years with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
• 3+ years’ experience with/exposure to Python preferred
• ARM Cortex-M experience is preferred
• Experience with Security/Secure boot/Cryptographical algorithms and methods preferred.
• USB, SPI, I2C, I2S, Bluetooth experience is a plus
• Experience working with electrical hardware interfacing preferred
• Working knowledge of JTAG debug interface
• Experience with ARC architecture desirable
• Understanding of RTL/simulation tools a plus

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