Firmware Engineering Fellow

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THE ROLE:

This is an exceptional opportunity to set the technical direction for firmware spanning AMD's CPU and GPU product lines. As a Fellow in the Firmware Engineering team you will own firmware architecture across multiple SoC generations, drive hardware/firmware co-design with architecture, design and verification, and define how the organization builds, validates and automates firmware — including how we adopt AI-native and agentic development at scale. Decisions you make here are felt from pre-silicon emulation through to production in the field.

THE PERSON:

You are a deeply experienced firmware architect with a record of solving the hardest problems in embedded systems and bringing teams with you while you do it. You are comfortable setting direction where none exists and then driving it to a shipped result. You have the technical communication skills and credibility to influence peers, senior management and external partners alike, and you find as much satisfaction in growing the engineers around you as in the code you write yourself.

KEY 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; influence silicon definition based on firmware requirements.

• Set technical direction for firmware quality, validation strategy, CI/CD and sanity infrastructure across the organization.

• Define the organization's AI-native development strategy — agentic coding workflows, AI-assisted test-case generation, automated triage and review — and drive adoption.

• Lead resolution of the most complex cross-functional issues spanning silicon, firmware, driver and system software.

• Represent AMD's firmware position in industry standards bodies, customer engagements and partner technical reviews.

• Guide pre-silicon enablement (emulation, RTL simulation, modeling platforms) and post-silicon bring-up strategy.

• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across multiple teams and sites.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience architecting and delivering production firmware for complex SoCs — CPU, GPU, or both.

• Expert in C and embedded assembly; strong in C++ and Python.

• 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 — lab debug, triage and driving issues to root cause through production.

• Experience defining validation, automation, CI/CD and sanity infrastructure for firmware at scale.

• Hands-on adoption of AI-native and agentic development — AI coding agents, LLM-assisted test-case generation, automated log triage — with informed judgment on where they do and do not belong in a firmware workflow.

• Familiarity with power management, security, RAS and telemetry firmware domains.

• Hands-on with pre-silicon firmware development environments: emulation, RTL simulation and virtual platforms.

• Track record of technical leadership across geographically distributed teams.
• Established record of technical thought leadership through publications, technical papers, patents, and presentations at internal and external conferences. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Science or Computer Science

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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