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SENIOR FIRMWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

The Role

AMD S3 firmware team works with the world's leading companies for their customized products. As a firmware engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and validating embedded firmware that comply with IP requirements. You will be working with global pre-silicon and post-silicon teams across Software development, SoC design/verification, emulation and validation teams.

The Person

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated design challenges and issues to good quality resolution. He/She should be able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD sites.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop features and enhancements within pre & post silicon environments.

Triage, analyze, debug and fix sophisticated issues and drive the resolution to closure.

Develops and execute test plans to evaluate functionality, security, and efficiency of firmware utilizing emulation and evaluation boards for pre-silicon and post silicon testing.

Plan, track and deliver all firmware deliverables.

Work closely with needed key stakeholders for efficient feature implementation and issue resolution and be responsible for the commitments.

Scope and perform quick feasibility study of new asks and technologies work closely with needed key stakeholders for efficient feature implementation and issue resolution and be responsible for the commitments.

Scope and perform quick feasibility study of new asks from the customers.

Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups.

Develop technical relationships with peers and partners.

Preferred Experience

Minimum 8+ years experience in hands on firmware development on ARM/RISC-V or similar architecture across emulation, simulation, and post-silicon environments.
Strong with C and assembly language programming.
Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail.
Experience with bare metal and RTOS based firmware development.
Proficient in debugging embedded firmware using debug tools.
Good understating of SoC power management, including clock–power trade-offs, multiple power-off states (e.g., OS sleep vs. hibernate), CPU and device power states, and hot-plug mechanisms.
Solid understanding of security concepts such as Root of Trust, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, etc.
Hands on with one or more peripherals/controllers like UART, I2C, SPI, QSPI etc.
Nice to have IPU/NPU FW experience.
Must have working knowledge on Git/Gerrit
Experience in semiconductor domain preferred.
Quick learning and self-motivated.

Academic Credentials

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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