Senior Embedded Firmware Validation Engineer

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THE ROLE:

THE PERSON:

You understand how firmware, silicon, and hardware interact, and you can follow a failure across all three. You bring deep hands-on hardware bring-up and validation experience, strong analytical instincts, and the judgment to know what production readiness looks like for a platform. You work well with global teams, communicate clearly, and you go looking for the hard, ambiguous problems rather than around them.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• System-Level Validation: Define and drive the silicon-to-solution validation strategy — plans, coverage, regression, and signoffs. Bring up baremetal and embedded Linux to exercise the full system. Write firmware and low-level system software for on-chip ARM (APU/RPU) or RISC-V cores. Build and customize embedded Linux images using the Yocto-based Embedded Design Flow (BSP configuration, device trees, kernel/rootfs tuning, custom recipes and layers).
• Board Bring-Up & Validation: Own new board bring-up from first power-on through a stable platform. Build the scripts, baremetal code, and debug flows the boards team needs to complete bring-up and validation.
• Test Development & Automation: Develop validation tests and applications in baremetal and Linux environments, and automate execution and regression to scale coverage.
• Debug: Debug complex issues that span silicon, firmware, drivers, and the operating system.
• Cross-Team Collaboration & Signoff: Partner with architecture, design, verification, software, product engineering, and board teams. Drive production readiness, issue tracking, risk assessment, and validation signoff.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Hands on embedded systems and hardware validation experience.
• Proven board bring-up and validation experience — taking a new board from power-on through boot and interface bring-up, and debugging clocking, reset, power, and hardware issues on the bench.
• Strong C/C++ for bare-metal and Linux-based embedded systems on ARM or RISC-V cores; Linux kernel-mode driver knowledge is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx embedded Linux flows: building and customizing images with the Yocto-based Embedded Design Flow (BSPs, device trees, custom recipes/layers).
• Experience validating interfaces such as Ethernet, USB, plus common peripherals like SPI, I²C, UART, and CAN.
• Working knowledge of AMD/Xilinx Vitis and EDF environments.
• Comfortable automating in Python, Tcl, Shell, and Makefiles, with Git and structured CI/regression workflows.
• Strong ownership and communication, with a track record of technical leadership and mentoring.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
  
  LOCATION: San Jose, CA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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