ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking Principal DSP Firmware Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and validation of firmware supporting advanced DSP algorithms on next‑generation silicon platforms. You will play a critical role in defining DSP firmware strategy, owning pre‑silicon development, and leading silicon bring‑up, while mentoring engineers across the team.

This role is ideal for a senior technologist who can own end‑to‑end DSP firmware subsystems and drive technical decisions from architecture through deployment.

Locations Available: Ottawa, ON – Córdoba, Argentina – Irvine, CA

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of DSP firmware subsystems

• Define FW control interfaces, configuration parameters, and runtime debug controls and diagnostics

• Drive collaboration with system architects and DSP designers on algorithm partitioning, FSM design, and firmware controls

  • Design finite state machines governing DSP acquisition and tracking control loops
  • Optimize firmware for real‑time operation, latency, throughput, and resource usage to meet FW specifications

• Own pre‑silicon test‑driven development framework for DSP firmware

• Hardware Abstraction Layer generation and integration with simulation, emulation platforms

• Collaborate with verification teams to align firmware validation strategy with regression infrastructure

• Drive regression strategy, automation, and test reusability, including customer release automation using Jenkins pipelines

• Debug complex firmware, DSP, and system‑level issues

• Own bring-up of DSP acquisition flows

• Analyze issues using firmware logs, traces, and instrumentation

• Support regression testing teams by identifying root causes and improving test coverage

• Enforce firmware coding standards, test coverage and best practices

• Mentor and guide junior firmware engineers

• Contribute to defining development workflows, and long‑term maintainability

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 6–10 years of experience in embedded/firmware development.

• Strong background in DSP theory and algorithm implementation

• Optimizing FFT algorithms and FFT‑based resampling (preferably on SiFive processors)

• Deep experience architecting DSP‑centric firmware systems and expert‑level programming skills in C/C++

• Familiar with emulation testing frameworks and firmware‑level mocking strategies

• Experience with pre‑silicon development, silicon bring‑up, and system‑level debugging

• Familiar with UVM based verification environments and SystemVerilog test methodologies

• Familiar with FPGA and emulation platforms for pre silicon validation

• Experience with silicon bring-up, board bring-up, and complex firmware debugging.

• Ability to work cross‑functionally with systems, DSP, verification, and hardware teams

• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of
  • CMIS (Common Management Interface Specification) standards for optical modules
  • RISC V architecture (SiFive or similar)
• Familiarity with
  • Operating environments: Embedded Linux or RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, VxWorks)
  • Boot architecture: U‑Boot, custom multi‑stage boot flows
  • Low‑level SoC and hardware interfaces: PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, UART

Salary Range for US 

$150,000 - $250,000 Base Annually  The final offer will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and location.