About the role
AMD is seeking a Principal Firmware System Test Engineer to lead system and solution testing for firmware across AMD products.
What you'll do
- Define system validation strategy, test architecture, and release quality gates for firmware across AMD products.
- Architect scalable automation frameworks and lab infrastructure for multi-node, cluster-scale testing.
- Validate new firmware and software features at a system level, write comprehensive test plans, and execute automated test suites.
- Review, triage, and debug complex test failures and customer-reported issues, verifying fixes across peer engineering teams.
- Report quality status, risks, and release readiness to program leadership.
- Mentor engineers across the team and establish system test engineering standards in an Agile environment.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Professional experience in system testing, validation, or test automation, including experience serving as a test architect or technical lead.
- Experience in firmware test and automation roles.
- Proficiency in writing automated test scripts and frameworks using Python.
- Knowledge of operating systems, kernel-mode programming, device drivers, the Linux operating system, and hypervisors such as VMware ESX or KVM.
- Proven background defining test strategies, establishing release quality gates, and leading technical triage.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with cloud, security, and data center technologies.
- Experience with software development tools including debuggers, profilers, and source code control systems such as GitHub.
- Experience testing firmware on CPU, GPU, or SoC platforms at scale, including AI workloads on multi-node clusters.
- Understanding of AI tools and their application in large-scale distributed validation environments.
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
779
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Median days since first seen
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$172k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (779 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 779 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 384 | 6705 · 161 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 35 d | 55 d (+20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $172k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 121 open roles · median 64 d
- NVIDIA · 84 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD (this employer) · 58 open roles · median 34 d
- Micron Technology · 52 open roles · median 77 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 37 open roles · median 35 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 29 open roles · median 60 d
How we counted: 779 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.