Firmware Engineer

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The India System design team is responsible to own and deliver System design milestones for IBM POWER and mainframe platforms. The team collaborates with Global System design & development teams and stakeholders. As a Firmware Engineer candidate will develop firmware for micro-controllers for the power/thermal subsystem of IBMs zSystems Servers. These micros perform functions such as monitoring temperatures and pressures communicating with higher level processors shutting down failing hardware and identifying failures.
Responsibilities
As Firmware Engineer the responsibilities include

• Design Develop and Test firmware and/or internal tools for power/thermal subsystem micro-controllers.
• Support the firmware and/or internal tools from conception through delivery to the field and to end of service.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4 – 8 years of relevant industry experience
• Understanding of micro-controllers and typical communication mechanisms such as UART and/or I2C.
• Around 2-5 years of total experience developing firmware or other low-level applications (device drivers robotics IoT etc).
  • Experience developing in memory restricted environments is a plus.
  • Experience developing in an RTOS Environment (such as ThreadX) is a plus.
• Experience in C and an object-oriented language.
• Experience in generating test cases for embedded devices.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical engineering

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with server design and architecture.
• Experience with Git/GitHub or similar version control software
• Experience with Python and C++ Programming
• Experience with developing Graphical User Interfaces