Radio Firmware Engineer
Renesas Electronics2 days ago
Kallithéa, GreeceMid Level
Responsibilities
- Implement, test, and maintain low-level radio firmware drivers for wireless SoCs.
- Optimize firmware for performance, energy efficiency, resource utilization, and reliability.
- Integrate radio drivers into wireless protocol stacks.
- Develop firmware for IC simulation, production testing, lab evaluation, qualification, and characterization.
- Implement and maintain automated regression tests for radio firmware.
- Troubleshoot firmware, software, and architectural issues.
- Create technical documentation and application notes.
- Coordinate tasks, report progress, identify project issues, and collaborate on datasheets, architecture specifications, and development plans.
Requirements
- Industry experience developing embedded software for ARM or DSP cores.
- Experience with highly resource-constrained, real-time embedded environments.
- Strong C and Python programming skills.
- At least one microcontroller family using Assembly Language.
- Experience across the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Proficiency with logic analyzers, debug probes, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and related electronics bench equipment.
- Knowledge of low-level drivers, low-power wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, Thread, or Zigbee, PHY and MAC techniques, Software Defined Radio, digital communication theory, DSP theory, or MATLAB is advantageous.
- Familiarity with GCC, GDB, Make, CMake, hardware description languages, test automation, wireless communications test equipment, and chip development commercialization is desirable.
- Understanding of hardware-software trade-offs and experience working with hardware engineers is desirable.
- Strong mathematical, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and debugging skills; fluency in written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package; further details are provided during the hiring process.
- Regular permanent employment.
- Remote work is not available.
About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.