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Lead Embedded Software Engineer

Goodix
Sheraton, Cairo
Posted 4 years ago
30Applicants for1 open position
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Job Description

  • To plan, lead and manage system software, embedded software and firmware design and development projects
  • Manage the embedded software design team including mentoring its junior members
  • Responsible for all aspects of software and firmware design and development to meet product requirements from the initial concept, architecture and specification all the way through to the final verification
  • Responsible for co-architecting the software-hardware partitioning with the digital design team
  • Responsible for all phases of the design cycle (requirements gathering, specification, modeling, coding, verification, building, releasing, code and release maintenance, lab testing, support and documentation).
  • Plan, lead and execute incremental updates and maintenance of existing software and firmware designs, test systems, and supporting environments.
  • Plan, conduct and contribute to design reviews, provide input to characterization and qualification test systems, and deliver the software needed for other activities such as FPGA emulation, and system simulators
  • Work closely with digital and analog design, VLSI, System, production, applications, and platform teams to develop and optimize the chip functionality and performance
  • Contribute with his team to lab testing and debugging the design all the way from first silicon to productization
  • Work with the applications engineers to provide adequate training and help address customer issues

Job Requirements

Basic Requirements

  • University degree in Electronics or Computer Engineering
  • Minimum 8-10 years of embedded software design and development experience as well as team and project leadership experience
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Highly motivated and independently driven with a Can-Do attitude
  • Having strong project management skills is a must
  • Ability to work with global, cross-functional teams
  • Excellent understanding of best-in-practice software development such as agile; TDD and CI.
  • Ability to derive software architecture and design from system requirements using formal specification methods
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of software industry norms, practices and processes (e.g., configuration management tools, issue tracking, revision control, ..) and having the discipline to enforce their use
  • Experience in ARM based architectures and platforms, AMBA bus variants, boot loaders and OTA FW updates is a must
  • Excellent knowledge of processor memory hierarchy, memory type selection and sizing, caching and memory management concepts and practices
  • Working knowledge of Linux drivers and SDK development is a must
  • Experience in C and its standards such as C90, C99 and C11, Assembly, multithreaded programming and RTOS
  • Experience in TCPIP and socket programming
  • Experience with communication buses such as I2C, SPI, SDIO and common peripherals
  • Hands-on experience with debugging hardware issues using scopes, logic analyzers and JTAG debuggers with good analytical and debugging skills
  • Excellent command of English (verbal and written)

Additional qualifications

  • Experience with digital design or interfacing with the digital design team is a strong plus
  • Experience with DSP algorithms, image and video coding, wired and wireless communications systems concepts and building blocks is a strong plus.
  • Working knowledge of Windows and Linux application development is a strong plus
  • Working knowledge of PCB design concepts and board bring-up is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with scripting (csh, Tcl/Tk, Perl,… etc) is a plus

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