Firmware Development Manager

Company: Lumentum
Location: San Jose
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Lumentum is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide.
Within Lumentum, the Commercial Lasers division enables advanced cutting, welding and other materials processing with a diverse product line-up of laser systems. These systems range from a few watts of laser power to 1000's of watts.
The Commercial Lasers team is seeking an embedded firmware manager to lead the development of firmware on multi-kilowatt laser systems. These systems often include multiple connected compute nodes of microcontrollers and FPGA's
This position is based in San Jose California is a cross functional leadership role, interacting with electrical, mechanical, optical and test teams to develop laser systems and product roadmaps.
What You Have The Opportunity To Own:

• Lead the firmware development for brand new, never been done before, laser systems. Including bringing in smart features such as predictive analytics and IoT connected devices.
• Lead and coach a team of firmware development and test engineers. Including recruiting new talent as needed.
• Establish firmware best practices and procedures. For example, Agile development methodologies, design reviews and coding standards.
• Define and deploy world class continuous integration test methodologies
• Collaborate with global Lumentum firmware and hardware teams on project deliverables and software development processes. Some international travel may be required
  Essential Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of embedded real-time firmware or software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience as a FW/SW manager or technical lead
  • An understanding of embedded communication protocols such as RS232, SPI, I2C and Ethernet
  • A record of owning projects successfully and successfully bringing a product to mass production
  • In-depth knowledge of C and C++
  • Demonstrated understanding of firmware architecture to support real-time operating conditions.
  • An understanding of functional partitioning between microcontrollers and FPGA's and the associated tradeoffs
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent. Masters or PhD preferred.
    Preferred Experience:
    • ARM based microcontrollers and application processors
    • Distributed control systems with multiple connected compute nodes
    • Hybrid systems with both embedded microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors (i.e. application processors)
    • Experience developing GUI software, especially in C#/.NET
    • Experience with RTL development, especially Verilog 2k and SystemVerilog

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