3 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$259k - $388k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own firmware architecture for CPU and GPU SoC subsystems across multiple product generations from specification through production.
- Drive hardware/firmware co-design with architecture, design, verification, power management, BIOS, and driver teams.
- Set technical direction for firmware quality, validation, CI/CD, and sanity infrastructure across the organization.
- Define and drive adoption of AI-native and agentic firmware development workflows, including AI-assisted test generation, automated triage, and review.
- Lead resolution of complex issues spanning silicon, firmware, drivers, and system software.
- Represent AMD firmware in standards bodies, customer engagements, and partner technical reviews.
- Guide pre-silicon enablement through emulation, RTL simulation, and modeling platforms, along with post-silicon bring-up.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise technical standards across multiple teams and sites.
Requirements
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering production firmware for complex CPU or GPU SoCs.
- Expertise in C and embedded assembly, with strong C++ and Python skills.
- Deep understanding of low-level hardware/firmware interfaces, multi-core firmware design, and performance optimization.
- Experience with real-time operating systems, board support packages, and hardware abstraction layers across shared code bases.
- Demonstrated leadership of silicon bring-up, including lab debugging, triage, and root-cause resolution through production.
- Experience defining firmware validation, automation, CI/CD, and sanity infrastructure at scale.
- Hands-on experience with AI-native and agentic development, including AI coding agents, LLM-assisted test generation, and automated log triage.
- Familiarity with power management, security, RAS, and telemetry firmware domains.
- Hands-on experience with pre-silicon firmware environments including emulation, RTL simulation, and virtual platforms.
- Track record of technical leadership across geographically distributed teams.
- Established technical thought leadership through publications, technical papers, patents, and internal or external conference presentations.
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science, or Computer Science.
Benefits
- Santa Clara, California location.
- AMD benefits are offered; specific benefits are described in AMD’s benefits-at-a-glance materials.
About AMD
AMD designs and sells CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive/embedded computing products for PCs, data centers, gaming, and edge devices. Its portfolio includes Ryzen and EPYC processors, Radeon and Instinct graphics, and adaptive SoCs from its Xilinx acquisition, sold to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company on NASDAQ and supplies semi-custom chips for major game consoles.