MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts,

MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

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Job Title:
Firmware Engineer, Senior

Job Description:
MACOM High Performance Connectivity is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to work with the MACOM team in Newport Beach, CA. The Firmware Engineer, Senior is responsible for working closely with Hardware Engineering, Device Engineering, Validation Engineering and Application Engineering to design, develop and test the firmware that will be used to test, validate and demonstrate MACOM components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop new and updating existing firmware using C on ARM and 8051 micro-controllers and with real time operating system implementations or bare metal.
  
• Use common tools such as debuggers, emulators, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and volt meters to test hardware and confirm that firmware is operating correctly.
• Assist Device Engineer and Hardware Engineer during bring-up of new devices and/or evaluation boards.
• Work with the hardware design team to select and understand critical design components used in evaluation boards.
• Specify and define firmware architecture that can be deployed on multiple MACOM components.
• Participate in design reviews, cross functional teams, code review, and unit test inspections.
• Work with other team members to take high level project requirements into firmware specification documents, design trade-offs, risk assessments, solutions, scope/time estimates, test and execution.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop test and diagnostics software to support bench testing.
• Develop reusable device drivers and communications protocol libraries.
• Review and evaluate product design and design verification/validation documents
• Bring up new evaluation boards and define and maintain the Board Support Package for each evaluation board.

Job Qualifications:

Required Skills

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science or Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
  
• 4+ years embedded firmware development targeting a real time and resource constrained hardware and embedded controller environment.
  
• Ability to debug firmware and dive into the hardware (hardware bring up, logic probing, measuring voltages, etc.).
  
• Extensive expertise with typical embedded systems tools, compilers, debuggers and IDEs such as IAR, Code warrior, STM32 IDE, Keil uVision.
  
• Familiarity with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS23, 1-Wire, JTAG.
  
• Experience writing firmware utilizing micro-controllers with small memory sizes.
  
• Experiences with ARM Cortex M/R/A CPU and 8051 controllers.
  
• Experiences with real time embedded operating systems such as FreeRTOS. Experience with Linux.
  
• Strong sense of urgency and ownership.
  
• Proficient in design, implementation, test, and documentation of firmware on MCU.

Additional Desired Skills

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  Experience with sensors, DAC, ADC, Multiplexers and power monitoring devices.
  
• Familiar with electronic hardware and schematics.
  
• Experience writing PC based programs to test / debug the firmware and the hardware.
  
• Basic understanding of Windows programming and driver.
  
• Familiarity with issue tracking software (Jira), and version control (Git, SVN).
  
• Experience with automated system testing and test-driven development.
  
• Strong communication, passionate, flexible, collaborative, works independently, sets own goals and has a “can-do” positive attitude.
  
• Organized, able to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying degrees of complexity, priority and urgency.

EEO:
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:
Reasonable Accommodation. MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call +1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.

Salary Range: $83,790 - $136,710
Actual salary offered to candidate will depend on several factors, including but not limited to, work location, relevant candidates’ experience, education, and specific knowledge, skills, and abilities.