Sr. Firmware Engineer

• Design, develop, debug , verify and/or validate firmware, software and/or hardware
• Participant in day-to-day firmware development work
• Provide consultation to internal and external customers regarding AMD features and programming requirement s

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Prior years of experience and/or education within the semiconductor industry
• Experience producing quality firmware
• Experience with x86, ARM and/or RISC-V architecture.
• Experience Embedded firmware and/or device driver development.
• Experience with board, processor, or ASIC bring-up.
• Experience with Embedded System protocols DDR, SPI, eSPI, I2C, LPC, and PCIe.
• Experience in hardware/software interfaces and debugging sophisticated issues in CPU and firmware using JTAG, source code debuggers and other tools.
• Programming Language/ Concepts:
• Complete mastery of C programming language with recent programming experience, logical thinking
• Python
• Operating System concepts.
• Debugging skills to support legacy and current product line
• Good debugging knowledge. Should know how to debug OS issue (Windows and Linux) from firmware perspective
• Prior experience for working with ISV (Independent Software Vendors) and enabling IBV (Independent BIOS Vendors) for enabling x86 / ARM platforms.
• EDKII and UEFI
• Should know EDKII Tianocore very well
• Should be familiar with UEFI, IPMI, ACPI spec very well
• Should know how to develop packages, modules, drivers and libraries.
• Processor architecture:
• Should know at least one processor architecture either X86 or ARM; X86 will be preferred.
• I/O or peripheral protocols.
• Should know I2c, I3c, UART and specifically SPI/eSPI protocol.
• Good to have PCIe knowledge
• Should familiar with enterprise level day to day activities
• Git, Jira, CI, release cycle, deliveries, pre-silicon and post-silicon.
• Experience with pre-silicon development on FPGAs or simulation environments.