Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Micron’s vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. ​ Join an inclusive team focused on one thing: using our expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we create help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can spark the very innovation we are pursuing.

Req. ID: 237384

Micron Technology’s vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life and our dedication to people, innovation, resourcefulness, teamwork, and customer focus allows us to fulfill our mission to be a global leader in memory and storage solutions. This means conducting business with integrity, accountability, and professionalism while supporting our global community.

As an Embedded Firmware Engineer 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 analysis firmware for new high-performance memory controllers and Solid State Drives. You can expect to work closely with system test engineers, system failure analysis engineers, firmware engineers, firmware test engineers, system hardware design engineers, product engineers, memory design engineers, firmware tools developers, and production engineers to tackle multi-functional product development issues.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following: Participate as a team member and work effectively inside and outside of the team. Demonstrate proficiency in coding skills, verification/validation, simulation, failure analysis, ASIC/FPGA/System bring-up, 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. Focus on firmware quality in the system and the target application. Participate in SCRUM/Agile processes and distributed code reviews. Develop new test tools and methods. Follow specified processes/procedures/workflows. Analyze equipment or software; you will 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, supply to, and craft clear documentation for deliverables that meet both internal specifications/standards and SSD industry standards and specifications.

This particular firmware role will entail working alongside other firmware engineers on the front-end interfaces of Micron Solid State Drives. Most code development tasks will require working closely with the NVMe protocol firmware, most likely focused on Enterprise SSD products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of firmware development, verification, system failure analysis, embedded systems design and real time embedded systems.
• Knowledge of modern real-time operating systems (RTOS), and multi-threaded environments
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to find creative solutions to hard problems.
• Strong solid understanding of software engineering principles and designing and developing firmware using assembly and C/C++ programming.
• Strong debugging skills in an embedded firmware application including:
• Using development tools and IDE's such as Slick Edit, Eclipse, and GDB.
• 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 solid understanding analyzing complex firmware and hardware issues.
• Solid understanding working identifying and optimizing performance of critical algorithms.
• Solid understanding of ARM and ARC Microprocessors in multi-core environments
• Knowledge of the Agile software development process life cycle.
• Solid understanding of structured firmware development process and lifecycle.
• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with the NVMe interface and protocol
• Experience with PCIe
• Experience with enterprise SSDs
• Strong skills in communicating complex technical ideas/concepts.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and communicate effectively (written and verbal) across multiple locations and teams.
• MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.

About Us

As the leader in innovative memory solutions, Micron is helping the world make sense of data by delivering technology that is transforming how the world uses information. Through our global brands — Micron, Crucial and Ballistix — we offer the industry’s broadest portfolio. We are the only company manufacturing today’s major memory and storage technologies: DRAM, NAND, NOR and 3D XPointTM memory. Our solutions are purpose built to leverage the value of data to unlock financial insights, accelerate scientific breakthroughs and enhance communication around the world.

Micron Benefits

Employee Rewards Program, Healthcare, Paid time off (Combined Sick and Vacation Time), Retirement savings plans, Paid maternity/paternity leave, Employee Assistance Program, Professional development training, Workplace wellness programs, Micron Health Clinic (Boise only), Fitness Center / Activity rooms (Boise only), Tuition Reimbursement, Micron Corporate Discounts, Casual Dress attire.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through our global brands – Micron® and Crucial® – our broad portfolio of high-performance memory and storage technologies, including DRAM, NAND, 3D XPointTM memory and NOR, is transforming how the world uses information to enrich life. Backed by more than 40 years of technology leadership, our memory and storage solutions enable disruptive trends, including artificial intelligence, 5G, machine learning and autonomous vehicles, in key market segments like mobile, data center, client, consumer, industrial, graphics, automotive, and networking. Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more visit micron.com/careers

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Micron prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and other international and industry labor standards.

Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.

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