Firmware Engineer

About This Role

This Firmware Engineer position focuses on developing firmware for high-speed cables, including active copper, passive copper, and active optical products. The role involves working with rapidly evolving communication chips and host interfaces like CMIS, and is part of a collaborative software team that also develops manufacturing applications and specialty software tools for hardware engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and support firmware for active high-speed IO cables and thermal loopbacks
• Work with customers and manufacturers of chosen communication chips
• Contribute as a key firmware resource to product teams, turning high-speed IO cable concepts into manufacturable products
• Provide engineering support to team members for fine-tuning communication settings by opening back doors or interfaces as needed
• Work hand-in-hand with developers responsible for manufacturing applications
• Provide firmware support to product qualification, testing, and manufacturing
• Mentor other team members as needed
• Ensure all firmware is well documented and can be supported by other team members
• Visit Amphenol manufacturing plants during product ramp-up, as needed

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering and 5+ years of industry experience with firmware development on bare metal or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with ARM Cortex-M0/M0+ and embedded solutions from sub 32KB of Flash and up, including the use of GPIO pins, ADCs, Interrupts
• Good understanding of I2C, including how to debug and support a bit-banged bus
• Experience in developing page-based host interfaces for I2C Slaves, such as is used by Small Form Factor devices or CMIS
• Working knowledge of SWD style debugging
• Comfortable working in a team that shares code and with peer reviews of code
• Hands-on experience with source code control systems, including a habit to make regular check-ins
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, strong English reading and writing ability
• Self-starter, able to work efficiently without having all details or requirements laid out on the table
• Dynamic and adaptable personality, able to think out of the box

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About the Company

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market, with global headquarters in Nashua, NH, and design, sales, and manufacturing locations globally.