Firmware Lead, Eliyan
5 days a week in office
Performance improvement for chiplet-based systems
Open for applications
Performance improvement for chiplet-based systems
21-100 employees
Open for applications
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable the scalable, power-efficient computing architectures required for the next wave of AI and advanced computing workloads.
Role
Who you are
- M.S. or Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and related fields, or equivalent
- Minimum twelve years’ experience leading and delivering production quality FW on SerDes/IO/PHY products
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with firmware development for one of Ethernet, DDR, or PCIe PHY designs
- Expert-level knowledge of CMIS (Common Management Interface Specification) standards and implementation – module management for form factors such as QSFP-DD, OSFP, OSFP-XD
- Strong bias for innovations across all aspects of FW design including effectively collaborating with chip architects and designs for efficient HW/SW partitioning
- Strong technical foundation and experience with analog, DSP and controller products
- Experience mentoring engineers and managing small teams (4-5 people) preferred
- Track record of leading small teams in a start-up like environment to successful delivery of products into production
- Full understanding of established and emerging design methodologies and flows
- Knowledge of DRAM Controllers, DRAM PHYs, HBM Memory a plus
What the job involves
- As an Eliyan FW Lead, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow’s chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility
- You will be developing FW for for best-in-class PHYs and Controllers. You will work with a cross-functional team of experts that operate from first principles, innovate and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits. ONSITE M-F
- Define state-of-the-art FW development environment spanning compilers, build and source code control tools
- Design, develop, and test C/C++ based functions on pre-silicon verification environment, including hardware emulation platforms, through chip bring-up
- Define and implement efficient methodologies to extract key performance indicators and telemetry for various PHY operating modes
- Define customer facing API interfaces for PHY and controller products
- Define and support implementation of a flexible FW QA infrastructure for automated regressions of pre-silicon, emulation, and post-silicon test plans
- Work with cross functional teams across the company to deliver customer-ready products
- Interview and ability to attract technically strong engineers for supporting various functions of FW deployment
- Work with analog and digital teams during design and post-silicon bring-up phases for day 1 end-to-end path bring-up / debug
- Develop plans and track progress to maintain aggressive development and deployment timelines
- Own FW architecture definition documentation and schedule cross-functional reviews
- Lead CMIS implementation, and compliance efforts for PHY and controller products, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices
- Full ownership of FW, API and customer specific debug GUI infrastructure
Our take
In order for technology like artificial intelligence to work at its peak, the hardware we use needs to support high performance. Eliyan is working to make peak-performance hardware a reality by eliminating the so-called "memory wall" that hinders high-performance applications.
Essentially, this problem exists because the current memory infrastructure works slower than the high-performance applications themselves. Eliyan combats this by supplying chiplet interconnect technology, which enables the tiny building blocks of computing structure to be linked together on the same device.
It's a complex undertaking, but a valuable one - and the idea has seen Eliyan raise considerable backing from major AI and compute players. This not only showcases a vote of confidence from the sector, but also enables the company to move forward with the commercialization of its offerings.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2026
$50m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $150m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Ramin Farjadrad
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former CTO and VP of Networking/Automotive PHYs at Marvell Semiconductor. Was Chair of the Technical Committee at NAV Alliance, Co-Founder and CTO at Aquantia and Senior Principal at Rambus.
Syrus Ziai
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously VP of Engineering at NUVIA and Qualcomm, SVP of Engineering at PsiQuantum and VP of Worldwide Engineering at Ikanos Communications. Has also held CEO positions in the past.
Patrick Soheili
(Co-Founder)Managing Director at Ridgeview Venture Partners. Was a VP at eSilicon, as well as President and CEO at ON DEMAND Microelectronics and at Cradle Technologies.
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