Firmware Application Engineer

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San Diego, CA
106K-130K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Internet of Things • Semiconductor
The Role
The Firmware Applications Engineer will develop embedded software and firmware for Semtech's wireless solutions, provide technical support to various teams and customers, and create documentation and training materials to promote product adoption.
Summary Generated by Built In

Location: San Jose, CA; San Diego, CA; Irvine, CA; Camarillo, CA

Our Team:

Semtech’s Wireless Applications team is a group of passionate and talented engineers tasked with ensuring successful customer design-ins of Semtech wireless and LoRa® solutions and to develop and deliver advanced hardware and firmware IoT solutions for the LPWAN space. Semtech is seeking a Firmware Applications Engineer to join our North American Applications team who is interested in applying wireless technology to satisfy practical customer use-cases.

Job Summary:

The Firmware Applications Engineer plays a key role in facilitating customer success with Semtech’s wireless technology. In this role, you will develop expertise in the practical application of Semtech’s wireless transceiver silicon and software products through the development and testing of embedded software, firmware, and accompanying documentation and training material. Reporting into the North American Applications team, you will collaborate with customers and colleagues across the globe, have the opportunity to present your work at professional conferences and trade shows and participate in field testing activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop Reference Applications firmware, Proof Of Concepts, Demonstrations and Customer Enablement tools. (40%)

  • Provide technical support to Semtech Field Application Engineers, Sales and Business Development channels, as well as advanced support directly to Semtech customers (40%)

  • Generate technical documentation, presentations, and training materials to promote Semtech products and to facilitate LoRa technology adoption and design-in (20%)

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar field

  • 5+ years of experience in FW architecture, development, debugging and validation for low power IoT solutions

  • Knowledge of various programming languages (C, C++, Python…), hardware interfaces (UART, SPI, JTAG, …), tools (GNU Make, GCC, VS Code, Shell scripting, Gitlab CI/CD, …), MCU Architectures and RTOS (RISC-V, ARM, PIC Zephyr/ThreadX/FreeRTOS, …) and associated debugging techniques (JTAG, RTT)

  • Experience in wireless communication protocols such as LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, Cellular, Sidewalk, Thread etc,

Desired Qualifications

  • Rigorous, creative, and solution-oriented

  • Curiosity and adaptability when presented with new technologies and an evolving and dynamic environment

  • Capable of handling multiple tasks in a prioritized fashion

  • Excellent communication skills, ability to work as a multi-site team partner

  • Ability to provide effective customer service and to represent Semtech at customer meetings and trade shows

  • Full working proficiency in English (required), French (bonus)

The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace.

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $106,000-$130,000.  There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.

Top Skills

C
C++
Python
The Company
HQ: Camarillo, CA
1,475 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1960

What We Do

Semtech Corporation is a high-performance semiconductor, IoT systems and Cloud connectivity service provider dedicated to delivering high quality technology solutions that enable a smarter, more connected and sustainable planet.

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