Company Description
Sandiskunderstands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today's needs and tomorrow's next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we're living in and that we have the power to shape.
Sandiskmeets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibilityforward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globallyforinnovation, performance and quality.
Sandiskhas two facilities recognized by the World EconomicForum as part of the Global Lighthouse Networkforadvanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthousesforbreakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world movingforward.
Job Description
We are looking for a
FrontEnd PCIe Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the
deviceside PCIe FrontEnd firmware stack for nextgeneration highperformance storage controllers. In this role, you will own key layers of the PCIe firmware responsible for
link bringup, configuration space management, MMIO, interrupts, DMA, and command/queue handling, working closely with hardware, validation, and hostsoftware teams.
Key Responsibilities
- PCIe FrontEnd Firmware Development
- Design and implement firmware for PCIe initialization, link bringup, and configuration space programming (BARs, capabilities, MSI/MSIX).
- Develop MMIObased control and status interfaces used by host software.
- Work closely with DMA engines to enable highbandwidth, lowlatency hosttodevice and devicetohost data transfers.
- Architecture & CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Collaborate with hardware design teams on PCIe IP integration and bringup.
- Partner with validation teams on FPGA, emulation, and ASIC debug.
- Work with hostside driver and system software teams to define clean, scalable interfaces.
- Debugging & Performance Optimization
- Debug complex systemlevel issues spanning firmware, hardware, and host.
- Profile and optimize PCIe throughput, latency, and interrupt efficiency.
- Support bringup on presilicon and postsilicon platforms.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineeringor related field.
- Experience
- 8+ years of handson experience in firmware or embedded systems development.
- Strong experience with PCIe protocol fundamentals, including configuration space, BARs, MSI/MSIX, and link states.
- Proven experience in C/C++ firmware development on RTOS or baremetal environments.
- Technical Skills
- Solid understanding of MMIO, interrupts, DMA, cache coherency, and memory ordering.
- Experience debugging lowlevel issues using JTAG, logic analyzers, firmware traces, or PCIe protocol analyzers.
- Comfortable working with hardware specifications and silicon bringup flows.
- Experience with storage or accelerator devices (NVMelike protocols, custom command interfaces).
- Exposure to PCIe switch topologies and peertopeer (P2P) flows.
- Experience with presilicon validation environments (FPGA, emulation, or virtual platforms).
- Familiarity with security, reset isolation, or secure boot interactions at the FrontEnd.
Additional Information
Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.
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