Lead Embedded Firmware Architect - TX, Austin_Research Park, United States
Embedded & Systems Software
Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.
Architect firmware solutions for AMD AI infrastructure platforms.
About the role
As a Lead Firmware Architect, you will define and drive the firmware architecture strategy for AMD's AI infrastructure platforms.
What you'll do
- Define and drive the architecture of current and future AMD AI platform firmware solutions, spanning System management, telemetry, diagnostics, and serviceability.
- Architect scalable rack-level firmware frameworks optimized for hyperscale AI training and inference deployments.
- Lead firmware strategy and technical direction across platform bring-up, customer enablement, productization, and lifecycle management.
- Drive adoption of industry standards and emerging technologies including DMTF Redfish, SPDM, PLDM, MCTP, UEFI, ACPI, CXL, and OCP initiatives.
- Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and design assessments across firmware stacks.
- Define firmware interfaces between Control Plane, BMC, BIOS, GPUs, CPUs, network fabrics, and rack management infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with hyperscale customers and ecosystem partners to drive platform requirements, feature development, and deployment readiness.
- Drive architectural decisions for fault management, telemetry collection, observability, diagnostics, and platform health monitoring.
- Mentor and develop engineering teams by establishing best practices for firmware architecture, secure development, code quality, and platform integration.
- Lead root cause analysis of complex system-level failures and translate operational learnings into scalable architectural improvements.
- Influence industry standards bodies and open-source communities to advance firmware technologies for AI infrastructure.
What you'll need
- Extensive experience in firmware, embedded systems, platform architecture, or low-level systems software development.
- Proven experience architecting complex embedded firmware solutions across server, accelerator, networking, or data center platforms.
- Strong expertise in platform firmware technologies including OpenBMC, IPMI and DMTF standards such as Redfish, and Embedded Linux-based systems.
- Experience with modern AI infrastructure technologies such as PCIe Gen5/Gen6, CXL, UALink, XGMI, accelerator fabrics, and Rack-scale architecture.
- Experience designing firmware solutions for system management, telemetry, diagnostics, and RAS features in hyperscale environments.
- Hands-on experience debugging complex interactions across firmware, hardware, operating systems, drivers, and management software.
- Strong programming background in C/C++, embedded Linux, U-Boot, RTOS environments, and low-level system software.
- Experience with secure coding practices and static/dynamic analysis tools such as Coverity, Black Duck, or equivalent technologies.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and influencing architectural decisions across multiple organizations.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science.
Market context
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 58-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
725
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$168k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (725 roles · 80 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 61 | 725 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 404 | 6047 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 30 d | 58 d (−28 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 127 open roles · median 59 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 99 d
- AMD (this employer) · 59 open roles · median 31 d
- NVIDIA · 57 open roles · median 59 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 41 open roles · median 30 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 29 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 725 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 80 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.