Staff FW Design Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Cepton, Inc.
Location: San Jose, CA 95123
Description:
Staff FW Design Engineer
Department: Hardware Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: San Jose, CA
Compensation: $180,000 - $240,000 / year
Description
CEPTON, a leading intelligent lidar solution provider, is seeking a Staff FW Design Engineer who is passionate about solving challenges to join us. Partnering closely with our brilliant R&D HW & System teams and closely interfacing with our professional and competent SW development team. You'll work in a dynamic, cross-functional, collaborative work environment for the advanced LiDAR product driven by the robust embedded system for automotive and non-automotive customers.
Here at CEPTON, we use technology to make some difficult problems become easy and some impossible tasks become feasible. We value one's ability to learn higher than the knowledge one has acquired in the past. We enjoy solving hard problems together. As we are at the cutting edge of technological advancement, join us if you are willing to work with like-minded people to face the challenges posed by the new era of technology, together with opportunities to work with strong industry leaders in the fields of automotive OEM, ADAS, Imaging-based AI application.
What We Will Offer:
Locations:
Cepton is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $180,000-$240,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications
What You Will Do: Join the R&D HW team equipped with deep & broad knowledge and design knowhow & expertise on various high speed electrical systems supported by a variety of embedded devices, including commercial CPU, FPGA, MCU as well as the ASIC chip set developed by Cepton
Responsible for ASIC prototyping validation in lidar systems, SOC firmware and driver development.
Support SOC hardware/software interface development and top level co-simulation.
Deliver high quality embedded code to enable key functionality and performance of electrical subsystem as part of our advanced lidar system and technology development.
Design and development of efficient and reliable C/C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-environment in order to support solid new product prototyping phase as well as smooth transition to pre-production phase.
Electronics sub-system troubleshooting, problem root cause partition and FW/SW solution.
Capable of analysis and quantification of the overall system performance, efficiency and marginality budget with improvement opportunities (e.g.: latency, cycle time and resource optimization) is big plus
Architect, Design and Development experience using advanced Xilinx FPGA chip set and ARM System-On-Chip is required.
Who You Are: Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering disciplines, or physics, with minimum 5 years of industry experience in developing embedded systems
Proficient with C, C++, and Python
Knowledge of SOC architecture, high speed interface, DMA and system boot process.
Experience in ASIC hardware-software co-development and verification is a big plus.
Knowledge in multithreading, memory management, and real time operating system concepts is big plus
Familiar with some basic electrical circuit design with the embedded devices
Knowledge of embedded software design, development, and testing is also preferred
Experience with TCP/IP and networking stacks and with the embedded microprocessor tools are also a plus.
Familiar with ARM & automotive development: MISRA-C, UDS is a big plus
Department: Hardware Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: San Jose, CA
Compensation: $180,000 - $240,000 / year
Description
CEPTON, a leading intelligent lidar solution provider, is seeking a Staff FW Design Engineer who is passionate about solving challenges to join us. Partnering closely with our brilliant R&D HW & System teams and closely interfacing with our professional and competent SW development team. You'll work in a dynamic, cross-functional, collaborative work environment for the advanced LiDAR product driven by the robust embedded system for automotive and non-automotive customers.
Here at CEPTON, we use technology to make some difficult problems become easy and some impossible tasks become feasible. We value one's ability to learn higher than the knowledge one has acquired in the past. We enjoy solving hard problems together. As we are at the cutting edge of technological advancement, join us if you are willing to work with like-minded people to face the challenges posed by the new era of technology, together with opportunities to work with strong industry leaders in the fields of automotive OEM, ADAS, Imaging-based AI application.
What We Will Offer:
- Opportunities to work with strong industry leaders and opportunities to relocate to Silicon Valley.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and more.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Bonus program eligibility.
- 401k and FSA or HSA.
Locations:
- Cepton Headquarters - San Jose, CA.
- Some local on-site visits to key customers.
- Travel to regional customer sites and to support trade shows & conferences if needed.
Cepton is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $180,000-$240,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications
What You Will Do: Join the R&D HW team equipped with deep & broad knowledge and design knowhow & expertise on various high speed electrical systems supported by a variety of embedded devices, including commercial CPU, FPGA, MCU as well as the ASIC chip set developed by Cepton
Responsible for ASIC prototyping validation in lidar systems, SOC firmware and driver development.
Support SOC hardware/software interface development and top level co-simulation.
Deliver high quality embedded code to enable key functionality and performance of electrical subsystem as part of our advanced lidar system and technology development.
Design and development of efficient and reliable C/C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-environment in order to support solid new product prototyping phase as well as smooth transition to pre-production phase.
Electronics sub-system troubleshooting, problem root cause partition and FW/SW solution.
Capable of analysis and quantification of the overall system performance, efficiency and marginality budget with improvement opportunities (e.g.: latency, cycle time and resource optimization) is big plus
Architect, Design and Development experience using advanced Xilinx FPGA chip set and ARM System-On-Chip is required.
Who You Are: Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering disciplines, or physics, with minimum 5 years of industry experience in developing embedded systems
Proficient with C, C++, and Python
Knowledge of SOC architecture, high speed interface, DMA and system boot process.
Experience in ASIC hardware-software co-development and verification is a big plus.
Knowledge in multithreading, memory management, and real time operating system concepts is big plus
Familiar with some basic electrical circuit design with the embedded devices
Knowledge of embedded software design, development, and testing is also preferred
Experience with TCP/IP and networking stacks and with the embedded microprocessor tools are also a plus.
Familiar with ARM & automotive development: MISRA-C, UDS is a big plus