Senior Firmware Engineer

Overview

I am currently partnered with an innovative technology company developing high-performance hardware and embedded systems for demanding computing applications.

The business is growing its engineering team and is looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer to work on advanced storage and host-interface technologies.

About the Role

This role will focus on low-level firmware development covering storage protocols, command processing, high-speed interfaces, system management, error recovery, and product validation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain NVMe firmware, including command processing, data transfers, and queue management.
• Implement and debug PCIe-based communication and host-management interfaces such as SMBus and I3C.
• Develop status reporting, monitoring, control, error-handling, timeout, reset, retry, and recovery functionality.
• Validate firmware against relevant industry standards and host platforms.
• Debug low-level issues using protocol analysers, logic analysers, firmware logs, and trace tools.
• Support compliance, interoperability, stress, power-management, hot-plug, and error-injection testing.
• Investigate complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement reliable fixes.
• Work closely with firmware, hardware, validation, and systems engineering teams.

Qualifications

Professional experience developing embedded or storage firmware using C or C++.

Required Skills

• Professional experience developing embedded or storage firmware using C or C++.
• Strong understanding of NVMe and PCIe.
• Experience with SMBus, I3C, I²C, or similar communication protocols.
• Experience with firmware validation, protocol debugging, and system-level troubleshooting.
• Understanding of command processing, queue management, error recovery, and compliance testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

Experience with PCIe Gen4 or Gen5, NVMe compliance testing, storage controllers, or hardware bring-up would be advantageous.