Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer (Secure Boot & Real Time Platform)
Core
Design and implement mission-critical secure boot-chains, flash partition architectures, and hardware-enforced isolation layers for next-generation Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) platforms.
Role type
Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer (Embedded C, Security)
Builds
Zero-downtime autonomous vehicle systems with high availability and fail-safe robustness
Domain
Automotive / Embedded Systems / Cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Embedded C, Secure Boot-Chain architecture, Hardware firewall configuration (NXP xRDC), Memory Protection Units (MPUs), A/B firmware update schemes, Low-level state machine design, Hardware cryptographic enclaves (HSM/TPM/TrustZone), Device attestation, Anti-rollback protection, Inter-Core Communication (ICC) optimization, Fault-tolerant flash file systems, Wear-leveling algorithms
Preferred skills
Defensive engineering against physical/electrical attacks, Low-level hardware bring-up and verification (JTAG/SWD), Logic analyzer and oscilloscope usage, Peripheral/bus interference validation
Technologies
NXP xRDC, U-Boot, eMMC, UFS, QSPI, ARM TrustZone, eFuses, Shared memory architectures, Hardware semaphores
