About the company
Sandisk understands 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead Project Bring-Up & Diagnostics: Partner with firmware and hardware teams during the critical early phases of project bring-up. Own the initial setup, environment configuration, and stabilization of emulation and prototyping platforms.
- Triage & Debug: Act as the first line of defense for complex system-level failures during bring-up. Rapidly isolate root causes across the hardware, FPGA/emulator configuration, and early boot-code boundaries.
- Partner with Customers: Work directly with product firmware engineers to break down execution barriers, unblock their development pipelines, and abstract away hardware complexities.
- Infrastructure Automation: Develop automation, monitoring scripts, and health-check reporting to maximize the reliability, utilization, and throughput of the emulation and prototyping farm.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document creative workarounds, capture debug methodologies, and build standardized playbooks for platform setup and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Proven experience supporting large-scale FPGA prototyping platforms (e.g., Synopsys HAPS, custom multi-FPGA boards). Understanding of FPGA synthesis, place-and-route constraints, and clocking strategies is highly valued.
- Mastery of debugging tools and protocols (e.g., JTAG, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, in-circuit emulators) to trace signals and state machines during early platform bring-up.
- Familiarity with hardware emulation architectures (e.g., Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu) and how to map design code into an emulation environment.
- Solid understanding of the firmware development lifecycle and how it intersects with ASIC development, hardware description languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog), and FPGA design.
- Advanced Python scripting skills to develop internal tools, parsing utilities for debug logs, and automated regression.