Firmware Design Engineer, Staff
📌Mississauga, Canada 🇨🇦
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.
You Are:
You are a highly motivated and innovative firmware engineer with a passion for developing cutting-edge technology. You thrive in collaborative environments and excel at problem-solving. With over 5 years of experience in embedded software development, you possess strong programming skills in C/C++ and a solid understanding of firmware development processes. You are adept at working through complex technical issues and have a proven track record of executing projects from start to finish. Your excellent communication skills enable you to work effectively with internal team members and customers alike. You are organized, detail-oriented, and capable of adapting to new challenges swiftly.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Developing firmware for embedded microprocessors in current and next-generation SerDes products.
- Designing, developing, and testing C/C++ based functions and applications.
- Interacting with team members during firmware development and debugging.
- Collaborating with firmware and hardware teams from other sites.
- Participating in firmware integration, debugging, and silicon hardware bring-up.
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Contributing to the specification development, prototype test-chips, and state-of-the-art IP products.
- Drive the innovation of high-performance silicon chips through the development of advanced firmware.
- Enhance the capabilities of SoCs by integrating more functions efficiently.
- Contribute to reducing the risk and time-to-market for differentiated products.
- Enable customers to meet unique performance, power, and size requirements for their applications.
- Support the creation of reliable and high-quality silicon IP products.
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Help Synopsys maintain its leadership in the semiconductor industry.
- BSEE or MSEE with 5+ years of embedded software development experience.
- Excellent firmware development and programming skills in C/C++.
- Experience with structured firmware development, verification, and documentation processes.
- Proven track record of executing projects from start to completion.
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Experience working with internal team members and customers on complex technical issues.
- Innovative and motivated with a passion for technology.
- A strong problem solver with excellent debugging skills.
- Effective communicator with strong collaboration abilities.
- Organized and detail-oriented with excellent time management skills.
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Adaptable and capable of learning new technologies quickly.
You will be part of a highly experienced PHY IP team, working alongside experts in the field of mixed-signal design. This team is responsible for delivering high-end designs from specification development through to prototype test-chips and state-of-the-art IP products. Your collaboration with firmware and hardware teams across various sites will be crucial in achieving our goals.
Rewards and Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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