Exponent Global Consulting is a Singapore-based boutique consulting firm that offers consulting and support services in the field of talent management, acquisition and development. We work closely with our partners and associates in Australia, China, India, West Europe and the US to deliver a range of strategic interventions across multiple organization levels. We work selectively with clients in Asia and focus on high impact initiatives.
The employer is a NASDAQ listed company involved in the design, manufacturing and marketing of Solid-State Drives, Flash and DRAM products for use in high-performance enterprise, industrial and military applications. The US headquartered company is a global leader in its field and is looking for high calibre professional to join its team in Malaysia as :
Position: Product Lead (Firmware Systems)
Job Code: PL/FW/MY/0811
Location: Major City, Malaysia
The selected candidate will lead a skilled cross functional firmware technology team and develop SSD (Solid State Drive) products for the enterprise market. He/She will be responsible for timely delivering highly innovative best in class SSDs. Specific responsibilities include:
Lead and guide multi-disciplined development teams through complex storage technology challenges
Drive firmware and systems delivery for firmware planning to production of the target customers.
Provide product schedules and deliver to these, using independent judgment to assess project technical status and determine the means to overcome technical problems
Represent the firmware team and lead the multi-disciplined engineering core team.
Provide detailed project technical pulse to the management team.
Assist the customer teams in initial customer engagements.
Requirements
Bachelors or Masters degree in EE or Computer Sciences with 6-8 years of relevant experience
Prior system level and project leadership experience delivering at least 1 product generation, preferably in the storage industry.
3-5 years experience in the storage industry and in-depth knowledge of HDD or SDD products from concept to production and field deployment challenges.
Prior experience with flash management software principles and/or file systems (journaling, wear levelingâ¦etc)
Prior experience with SoC (System on Chip) firmware development including memory optimization, DMA, etcâ¦
Expert level in C programming.
Expert embedded firmware skills (5 years or more including debugging using JTAG based debuggers and protocol analyzers.
Good understanding of RISC microprocessors including interrupt handling. Prior product development with at least two embedded microprocessors such as PowerPC, ARC, ARM or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience developing software using structured methodologies, including but not limited to requirements analysis and capture, design documentation, source code management tools and defect tracking tools.
Experience using protocol analyzers, traffic generators, jammers etc.
Excellent communication skills and ability to succinctly describe and summarize highly technical firmware and/or system challenges.
Strong engineering aptitude for electronic/electrical systems, including ability to understand schematics as necessary for software/hardware integration.
Strong leadership skills are absolutely required for this role.
Prior experience with Solid State Drives and working knowledge of NAND flash technologies preferred
Prior product development experience using modern RTOS for embedded systems preferred
Understanding of file system IO operation and/or transaction level storage preferred
Understanding of RAID, compression and encryption technologies preferred
Strong communication and inter-personal skills
Application
Please apply with a detailed CV (preferably including details on Education & Training, Key Skills, Detailed Work Experience, Language Skills, Professional Referees, Recent Photo, Current/Expected Salaries and Contact Details) to resume@exponent.com.sg
Kindly state the position and Code as the subject of your email. We regret that we would only be in a position to revert to shortlisted candidates.