Semidynamcis is seeking a Senior LPDDR5X Controller/PHY First-Silicon Bring-Up Engineer to support reconstruction, implementation and physical qualification of the LPDDR5X Controller/PHY initialization and training flow, taking controlled verification collateral through to deterministic first-silicon execution and failure diagnosis. Required experience Demonstrable DDR/LPDDR post-silicon bring-up experience; LPDDR5/LPDDR5X experience is strongly preferred. Strong understanding of memory-controller and PHY initialization, DRAM mode registers, timing configuration and frequency operating points. Hands-on experience with PHY initialization firmware, mailbox/status flows, calibration and training procedures. Experience diagnosing training failures and separating controller, PHY, DRAM, clock, reset and board-level causes. Low-level C/C++ firmware development and direct MMIO/register access. Ability to translate ordered verification sequences into deterministic executable firmware with readback, polling and bounded timeout handling. Understanding of memory read/write sanity testing and the transition from training PASS to a usable memory configuration. Practical laboratory experience during physical first-silicon memory bring-up. Strongly preferred Direct experience with Cadence DDR/LPDDR Controller and PHY IP. Experience with Cadence PHY firmware/training flows or comparable commercial DDR PHY solutions.
LPDDR5X frequency switching, training checkpoints and known-good configuration capture. Experience with first CPU-visible bandwidth measurements and controlled memory-performance evidence. Experience correlating verification traces, register databases and physical-silicon results. Expected responsibilities Review existing DDR verification collateral and identify the authoritative initialization/training sequence. Help convert the sequence into maintainable low-level C/C++ code rather than a blind register replay. Define register access widths, masks, polling conditions and hardware-derived timeouts from authoritative specifications. Integrate PHY firmware loading and controlled training/status flows. Support first-silicon initialization, training, basic read/write and failure isolation. Capture a controlled known-good configuration and reproducible evidence. Support the transition to the first controlled CPU-visible read/write/copy bandwidth measurement Why Semidynamics? Work for one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech semiconductor scale-ups. Accelerated development path. 4 days per week in the Barcelona office (city center), 1 day WFH. 1 week of work from everywhere in the world. Competitive package. A collaborative, technical, and growth-oriented environment that values direct ownership and clear thinking.