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About the role
As an Embedded Software Engineering Technical Leader for this team, you will serve as a principal firmware architect guiding the embedded CPU software architecture that configures, manages, and optimizes Acacia’s transceiver subsystems and future System-on-Chip (SOC) architectures. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in low-level embedded C and C++ programming for resource-constrained hardware environments
- 8+ years architecting and developing real-time embedded firmware on bare-metal systems and real-time operating systems (RTOS such as VxWorks, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or similar)
- Experience crafting lfirmware for ARM processors/microcontrollers (such as ARM Cortex-M or Cortex-R cores), including BSPs, device drivers and hardware peripheral interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, MDIO)
- Ability to work 100% onsite in Maynard, MA during the initial one-year onboarding period (with hybrid flexibility available thereafter)
More about this role
Acacia (part of Cisco) is the industry market leader and pioneer in high-speed coherent optical transceivers and pluggable optical interconnects. Acacia’s groundbreaking coherent optical solutions are deployed across all hyperscaler cloud providers and telecommunications networks, interconnecting data centers across metropolitan spans, thousands of kilometers of terrestrial fiber, and deep submarine links.
With the explosive growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads driving unprecedented bandwidth requirements, Acacia products are expanding into data center fabrics and high-performance compute clusters. In addition to powering deep-space optical communication systems, Acacia leads the client-side optics market with breakthrough PAM4 DSP architectures, including 1.6T PAM4 DSP platforms.
Joining Acacia’s Software team means collaborating with world-class engineers to push boundaries of optical networking.
As an Embedded Software Engineering Technical Leader for this team, you will serve as a principal firmware architect guiding the embedded CPU software architecture that configures, manages, and optimizes Acacia’s transceiver subsystems and future...
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