Lead Firmware Engineer

San Jose, CA, United States

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Lumentum’s Industrial Tech Platform (ITP) is seeking a Lead Firmware Engineer to join our growing firmware/software team.

This is a unique and challenging role as Lumentum is on an initiative to grow our product portfolio and your opportunity is being part of that new technology and innovation team focused on developing new laser platforms.

As a Technical Lead, you will be responsible for overall FW/SW architecture, design choices and implementation of key features. This is a cross functional role that interacts with electrical, mechanical and optical teams as well as the broader FW/SW team. The end goal being products that scale into production.

Bring your enthusiasm and experience and join our growing team!

Responsibilities:

Understanding system requirements and generating FW/SW specifications as needed

Deliver high-quality C or C++ code for our next generation Laser products

Applying Agile methodology for software/firmware development, with clear communication back to project stakeholders.

Work closely with hardware engineers to develop strategies for Hardware/Firmware integration and diagnostic coverage.

Experience developing low level device drivers for hardware peripheral interfaces and devices such as SPI, I2C, USB, ADC, DAC

Use unit testing and software in the loop testing to ensure code quality

Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) such as FreeRTOS or other embedded OS

Proficiency debugging embedded software systems: familiarity with JTAG, oscilloscopes, etc.

Hands-on with board bring up, build and enforce component validation for delivering robust, functional code

BS / MS /Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Minimum 8 years of experience with Firmware development

Good understanding of FW development cycle including integration and verification/validation process

Proficiency in C/C++, Python, or other high level scripting languages

Experienced in version control (Git) and continuous integration

Experience working with modern embedded processors

Test driven development experience using unit testing, automation testing, software in the loop, and hardware in the loop methodologies

Good communication skills in English

Experience in leadership, mentoring, organization and coordination skills

Good to have

Familiar with firmware/software best practices and standards, including Misra-C

Experience working with ARM Cortex MCU’s

Knowledge of laser systems is a plus but not required

Knowledge of an Agile development environment

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It’s an exciting time to join Lumentum! Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com .

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