Internship - Embedded Firmware/Hardware

About our group:

 

Do you have embedded firmware or hardware background, or both? We are seeking a Pre-Silicon Firmware Engineer to join our Longmont, CO development team. As a member of this team, you will work on exciting projects in hardware/software co-verification. We are part of Global Seagate’s Firmware Development Engineering organization. We are the primary group in Seagate that enables Early Firmware Development, Staging, and Validation efforts for HDDs SoCs and supports the SSDs SoCs. We develop in-house tools which are used during the Validation of a SoCs.

About the role - you will:

 

• Perform verification testing and debugging of ASIC designs against firmware and communicate design plans for evaluation
• Provide analysis (discover, document, communicate) of hardware and firmware functional problems and design flaws
• ·Regress hardware and firmware solutions to problems found and verify functionality
• Debug and verify that operation metrics fulfill design requirements and specifications
• Be responsible for development and implementation of model designs for software, firmware, and hardware to demonstrate their functionality
• Be responsible for co-simulation and verification of disc controller, a host interface, and buffer interface functionality using drive firmware
• Troubleshoot embedded firmware with Security Enabled protocols
•  Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
• Exercise judgement in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Create new test benches and maintain support in a leveraged simulation environment
• Contribute to the application of advanced verification methodologies
• Conduct assessment and design of firmware, hardware modeling software utilities, and scripting tools to meet requirements and provide customized solutions
•  Support feature integration and perform failure analysis for issues revolving around Co-simulation environment for targeted SOC (System on Chip)
• Develop drive firmware in C/Assembly for Drive Code.
• Validate cutting edge Security Algorithms used in Securing Seagate Hard drives during ROM Bootup

About you:

 

• You are a self-starter that exercises what you have learned including methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Working with cross functional teams is something you enjoy
• You have outstanding communication skills as you will be communicating with teams across the globe both verbally and via written communication

Your experience includes:

 

• System Verilog programming
• Embedded C programming
• Shell, Perl and/or Python scripting
• C++ programming
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• UVM experience is desired for debug
• Master’s degree

Location:

 

Longmont, CO

 

Colorado's 2021 Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (SB 19-085) requires we inform you of the estimated base salary range for this position: $20 – $35/hr. Actual salary range is based on fair market value of the role in the geography in which you live based on the requirements of the job and your skills. This posted salary range is a good faith and reasonable estimate, and Seagate reserves the right to adjust this range depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

 

Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees; including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, annual variable pay bonus, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, flexible and dependent care spending accounts, health care spending account, flexible time off/vacation, paid holidays and paid parental leave

 

Location: Longmont, United States
Travel: None