2 months ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and harden secure boot and Root of Trust solutions for embedded platforms and SoCs.
- Develop boot flow, early platform initialization, U-Boot, Linux kernel, BSP, Device Tree, and firmware-to-OS security integrations.
- Implement and debug platform security components and low-level drivers, including cryptographic accelerators, key services, secure storage, provisioning, anti-rollback, and attestation hooks.
- Lead firmware architecture definition and translate requirements into scalable embedded system designs.
- Perform hands-on platform bring-up, system-level debugging, and root-cause analysis across FPGA, emulation, early-silicon, and production environments.
- Deliver SDK security collateral, integration and validation guidance, known-issue tracking, and release-readiness documentation.
- Partner with hardware, software, QA, and validation teams to deliver reliable and secure products.
- Maintain technical documentation covering firmware architecture, design decisions, implementation details, and developer usage.
Requirements
- Bachelor's-level B.E. or B.Tech in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, or a master's-level M.E. or M.Tech.
- 10+ years of experience in low-level firmware or boot software development, including deep secure boot and Root of Trust expertise on SoCs.
- Expert proficiency in C and strong experience with low-level firmware and kernel-adjacent code.
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals, boot flow, memory management, MMU fundamentals, privilege and isolation concepts, and system-level debugging.
- Hands-on SoC and platform bring-up experience with ownership of boot-stack quality, reliability, and security.
- Extensive experience with U-Boot, Linux kernel, Device Tree, and build systems such as Yocto, Open Embedded, Rocky Linux, or comparable environments.
- Experience using GDB and at least one of OpenOCD, JTAG, Lauterbach, or similar debugging platforms.
- Experience with FPGA, emulation, or early-silicon bring-up and validation.
- Experience with UART, SPI, and I2C hardware communication protocols.
- Experience in pre-silicon or FPGA validation, post-silicon boot and security debugging, and complex platform issue triage is valuable.
- Familiarity with secure boot, secure storage, lifecycle and provisioning, anti-rollback, attestation, and firmware and OS trust boundaries.
- Exposure to Broadcom and Marvell SDK environments.
- Strong ownership, communication, documentation, cross-functional collaboration, coding discipline, and architectural thinking.
About Gigamon
Gigamon builds network visibility and deep observability products that feed packet- and flow-level telemetry to security, monitoring, and cloud operations tools across data center, campus, and hybrid cloud environments. It sells appliances and software subscriptions to large enterprises, service providers, and public-sector customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it serves 4,000+ organizations worldwide and was taken private by Elliott Management in 2017 after trading on the NYSE.