The Senior Engineer in Pre-Silicon Validation & Firmware Development will drive the development, validation, and optimization of firmware for advanced SoC and storage solutions across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases. This role involves hands-on firmware design, ASIC bring-up, protocol integration, and enabling early validation platforms, along with close collaboration across hardware, validation, and product teams to ensure robust and high-performance system delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Pre-Silicon Validation & Bring-up:
- Lead pre-silicon validation activities by enabling firmware-driven validation on simulation, emulation, and FPGA platforms.
- Drive ASIC bring-up activities, ensuring seamless hardware-software integration during early silicon phases.
- Develop validation strategies and test plans to identify design issues early in the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with design and verification teams to debug complex system-level issues across storage subsystems.

2. Firmware Development & Optimization:
- Design, develop,



and optimize embedded firmware for storage solutions, including bootloaders and low-level drivers.
- Implement and enhance firmware for NAND-based storage systems, ensuring high reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Perform code optimization, refactoring, and cleanup to maintain a robust and maintainable firmware codebase.
- Drive complete test coverage (CTC) initiatives to eliminate redundant or unused code paths.

3. Protocol Integration & System Enablement:
- Develop and integrate industry-standard storage protocols such as NVMe, UFS, SD, and UART into firmware stacks.
- Ensure protocol compliance, interoperability, and performance optimization across multiple platforms.
- Enable system-level validation by integrating firmware with hardware interfaces and controllers.

4. Validation Frameworks & Test Development:
- Develop automated test frameworks, tools, and utilities for firmware validation, including BER generation a

📌 Senior Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ST-L&T Semiconductor Technologies
📍 Bengaluru