Firmware Engineer - Mountain View, CA, United States
$220,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Own the platform firmware that brings AI accelerator systems to life and keeps them secure, healthy, and observable.
What you'll do
- Develop firmware across the stack, including boot ROM/bootloaders, embedded controllers / BMC, and device firmware.
- Implement secure boot and hardware root of trust, including measured/verified boot, code signing, and authenticated firmware updates.
- Manage power sequencing, PMIC/voltage-rail control, DVFS, and power/thermal protection.
- Implement monitoring and telemetry features for sensors, health/RAS, error logging, and platform management interfaces.
- Conduct debug and bring-up using JTAG/scan and debug infrastructure, and perform board and post-silicon bring-up.
- Partner with silicon/architecture, hardware/board, and software teams on firmware interfaces and HW/SW co-design.
What you'll need
- Strong C and assembly for embedded/firmware; bare-metal or RTOS on ARM (or similar).
- 5+ years developing platform/system firmware including boot, BMC/embedded controllers, and device firmware.
- Hands-on experience with secure boot / hardware root of trust, code signing, and secure/anti-rollback update.
- Experience with power-management firmware: power sequencing, PMIC/voltage regulators, DVFS, and thermal/power telemetry.
- Experience with platform monitoring & debug: sensor/telemetry, RAS/error handling, JTAG/debug, and management interfaces.
- Comfort at the HW/SW boundary, including reading datasheets/specs, lab bring-up, scopes/logic analyzers.
Nice to have
- Rust for firmware/embedded development.
- OpenBMC, UEFI/coreboot.
- Accelerator/GPU/server firmware.
- Applied crypto & key management.
- TEE (TrustZone).
- Side-channel/fault-injection awareness.
- Standards (NIST SP 800-193, FIPS 140-3).
- SBOM/supply-chain security.
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 56-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
723
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$166k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | DensityAI | All employers we track in this specialty (723 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 723 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 10 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 34 d | 56 d (−22 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $166k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 117 open roles · median 65 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 83 d
- NVIDIA · 59 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 35 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 43 open roles · median 36 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 28 open roles · median 42 d
How we counted: 723 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.