Software/Firmware Development Engineer

Viking Enterprise Solutions has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyperscale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-end flash systems. Viking Enterprise Solutions provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products.

Viking Enterprise Solutions is proud to be part of the Sanmina family. Sanmina is recognized as a technology leader, providing end-to-end design, manufacturing and logistics solutions, maintaining a global footprint of design and manufacturing operations in 23 countries on six continents.

Software/Firmware Development Engineer

Job Purpose:

In this role, the Sr. Firmware Development Engineer will participate in firmware engineering activities for the VES firmware development group in support of cutting edge data storage products and server product design in Colorado Springs. This person will report to the Firmware Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will participate in storage/server product design, drive the firmware engineering requirements and participate in the firmware code development activities. The candidate will also be responsible for supporting field issues related to system firmware and software and engage with our external partners to resolve problems. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of independently completing firmware design document creation, firmware code development, unit test activities and triage problems from the operating system.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Storage/Server HW design and firmware architects to provide early input on firmware design requirement
• Working closely with firmware architects to complete high level design and low level design documents
• Working closely with project team to provide sizing and schedule on given tasks
• Drive the firmware development effort from design, implementation, unit test, HW & FW integration to finally bug resolution to complete the project to GA.
• Participate in firmware code development and code review process
• Provide weekly status update to program management on development status
• Provide support to field application engineers to debug and resolve problems at the customer site

Education and Experience:

• BS or MS degree in Electrical engineering or computer science
• Minimum of 5 years of hands on experience in product design, firmware development in a medium or large global organization
• Excellent working knowledge of embedded system design
• Preferred (working knowledge and hands on experience on BIOS/BMC firmware development)
• Excellent working knowledge of various OS (Linux, Windows, Unix, etc.)
• Experienced in Server/Storage system architecture
• Preferred experience in testing of BMC, BIOS and SES firmware for storage/server applications
• Good system Hardware/Software integration and debug skills
• Preferred knowledge of SES, BMC, BIOS testing requirement
• Good communication skills to interact with external customer and engineering team
• Experienced in system level problem debug, problem determination and finding resolution

Skills and knowledge: Desirable

• Familiar with data storage technologies (NVMe, S3 Object, NFS and SMB File Systems).
• Experience with developing software in a Linux environment
• Use of Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
• BIOS implementation and customization experience
• BMC implementation and customization experience
• Code development for use in x86-based CPU systems

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Salary range (annual): $100,000 - $110,000

In addition, Sanmina Provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.