Member of Technical Staff I

Lattice Overview There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for. Job Description: We are seeking an OpenBMC Engineer to join our MCTP team. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and debug firmware features within the OpenBMC ecosystem, with a strong focus on MCTP (Management Component Transport Protocol) and related management interfaces. You will work closely with hardware, firmware, validation, and platform teams to deliver robust out-of-band management solutions for next-generation server platforms. Key Responsibilities: • Develop and maintain OpenBMC firmware components related to MCTP and platform management. • Implement and debug MCTP transport, discovery, routing, endpoint management, and related control flows. • Work with D-Bus, Yocto, systemd, and Linux-based embedded software stacks. • Integrate support for platform management protocols such as: MCTP over SMBus / I3C / PCIe / USB when required • Investigate and resolve issues across firmware, kernel, device tree, drivers, and user-space services. • Collaborate with hardware and validation teams to bring up new platforms and debug board-level issues. • Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code and contribute to code reviews. • Develop test plans, support validation, and improve automation for firmware verification. • Participate in root-cause analysis and provide long-term fixes for product issues. • Support release integration, regression analysis, and production readiness activities. Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. • Strong experience in embedded Linux development. • Hands-on experience with OpenBMC or similar BMC firmware stacks. • Good understanding of MCTP and related management protocols. • Proficiency in C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python or Shell. • Familiarity with Yocto Project, build systems, and Linux package integration. • Experience with D-Bus, services, and inter-process communication in Linux. • Ability to debug issues using logs, traces, bus analyzers, kernel messages, and hardware tools. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and in a team. Preferred Qualifications: • Knowledge of I2C/SMBus, I3C, PCIe, GPIO, UART, and embedded platform bring-up. • Experience contributing to upstream open-source projects. • Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and regression infrastructure. • Prior experience supporting server OEM or hyperscaler platforms. Soft Skills: • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. • Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment. • Attention to detail and ownership mindset. • Willingness to learn new technologies and troubleshoot complex system-level issues. Additional Information: This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in: Taiwan Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry. Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.