Principal Firmware Engineer
Job Description
Viking Enterprise Solutions has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyper-scale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-end flash systems. Viking Enterprise Solutions provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products. Viking Enterprise Solutions is proud to be part of the Sanmina family. Sanmina is recognized as a technology leader, providing end-to-end design, manufacturing and logistics solutions, maintaining a global footprint of design and manufacturing operations in 23 countries on six continents.
Job Purpose:
In this role, the Firmware Development Engineer will participate in firmware engineering activities for the VES firmware development group in support of cutting edge data storage products and server product design in Colorado Springs. This person will report to the Firmware Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will participate in storage/server product development activities on Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) and storage controllers. The candidate will also be responsible for supporting field issues related to BMC/SES firmware, and engage with our external partners to resolve problems. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of independently completing firmware design document creation, firmware code development and unit test activities to ship firmware projects on time with good quality.
Nature of Duties:
Working closely with Storage/Server HW design and firmware leads to provide early input on firmware design requirements
Collaborate on high level design and low level design documents
Work closely with project teams to provide a sizing and schedules on given tasks
Drive the firmware development effort from design, implementation, unit test, HW & FW integration to finally bug resolution to complete projects to GA.
Participate in firmware code development and code review process
Provide weekly status update to program management on development status
Provide support to field application engineers to debug and resolve problems at customer sites
Education and Experience:
BS or MS degree in Electrical engineering or computer science
8+ years of hands on experience in product design, firmware development in a medium or large global organization
Excellent working knowledge of embedded system design and embedded firmware development
Preferred (working knowledge and hands on experience on BMC firmware development
Excellent working knowledge of the Linux OS and embedded Linux environments
Experienced in Server/Storage system architecture
Preferred experience in testing of BMC, BIOS and SES firmware for storage/server applications
Good system Hardware/Software integration skills
Good communication skills to interact with external customer and engineering team
Experienced in system level problem debug, problem determination and finding resolution
Knowledge of IP Networking
Familiar with OpenBMC/Yocto community
Preferred knowledge of protocols including SES, IPMI, Redfish
Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
Salary Range(annual): $110,000 – $145,000
In addition, Sanmina Provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.