Firmware Engineer

About the company

Ichor Holdings

Semiconductors · 1,001 to 5,000 employees

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded firmware using C/C++ in a multi-threaded, real-time environment.
• Develop firmware for EtherCAT, DeviceNet, and legacy protocol flow control products.
• Translate product requirements into functional, firmware, and hardware/software design specifications.
• Contribute to embedded system and microcontroller/DSP architecture, considering performance, maintainability, scalability, and long-term product sustainability.
• Analyze and optimize embedded system resources for efficiency, stability, reliability, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and peer reviews of proposed hardware and software changes.
• Develop and execute design verification and test plans.
• Troubleshoot complex firmware and system-level issues throughout development and product lifecycle.
• Document product designs and support successful release and transition to manufacturing.
• Partner with electronics design engineers on the selection and qualification of new or replacement components.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to evaluate technical tradeoffs and guide designs toward optimal solutions.
• Work independently with directional supervision while exercising sound technical judgment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4+ years of combined firmware, embedded software, embedded controls, or closely related engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on programming experience using C and/or C++ for embedded systems.
• Experience developing firmware in a real-time, concurrent, interrupt-driven, or multi-threaded environment.
• Experience developing firmware for microcontroller-, SoC-, or DSP-based embedded systems.
• Experience integrating firmware with hardware interfaces and peripherals such as ADCs, timers, PWM, GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, or similar interfaces.
• Understanding of embedded system architecture, hardware/software interfaces, timing constraints, resource-constrained environments, and common firmware failure modes.
• Experience applying software engineering practices such as source control, issue tracking, peer review, modular design, defect management, testing, and maintainable coding standards.
• Ability to interpret technical requirements, decompose problems, evaluate alternatives, and develop reliable firmware solutions.
• Hands-on troubleshooting ability using debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, protocol analyzers, or equivalent laboratory tools.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary product development team.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical designs, decisions, and test results.

What you need

• The employer seeks an experienced Firmware Engineer.

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