As a Senior Storage Firmware Engineer, you will join a team of Firmware Applications Engineers in supporting exciting real-time firmware for state-of-art System-on-Chip devices with embedded enclosure management processors.  You will report to the regional FAE Manager and your responsibilities will include the items below.

Responsibilities:

• Focal point for customer technical contact.
• Assist customer with project design, bring-up, and debug.
• Evaluate new projects for potential application of Maxim parts from all product lines
• Develop firmware for customer and generic use
• Assist customer in driving all technical issues to root cause

• Embedded C development (with emphasis in storage processing)
• Knowledge of storage interface protocol standards such as SCSI, SATA, & SAS
• BSEE or BSCE.  MSEE or MSCE preferred.
• Proven system-level debugging skills using diagnostic equipment such as logic/bus analyzers and oscilloscopes
• 7+ years of software/firmware system development for real-time application experience (with at least 4 years in a storage systems related position)
• Effective/solid verbal and written communication skills of technical ideas
• Understand customer’s questions and provide solutions and/or suggest code fixes
• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals with little or no supervision
• Travel of up to 10% may be required.

Desired Background

• Experience in storage protocol development such as SCSI, SAS/SATA, RAID and/or enclosure management
• Experience with RAID/HBA and SAS/SATA/SCSI architectures
• SAS protocol analyzer experience
• SES protocol knowledge
• Previous customer facing position

Maxim is well known for its innovative analog, mixed signal, and System-On-Chip products.  Maxim's serial storage technologies provide significant cost, performance, and reliability benefits, including complete enclosure monitoring and diagnostics for midrange and enterprise-level storage systems. You’ll be directly involved in many of the steps in help them develop their firmware with for enclosure storage products.  If you’re a highly motivated, self-starter and are interested in moving beyond a typical firmware engineering job we’d like to talk with you.