Pre-silicon verification of ARM Cortex-M embedded firmware for power management ICs.
Originally posted 3 November 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 9 November 2026.
About the role
This role owns pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware used to control power management ICs for data center, AI accelerator, networking, and computing platforms. You will verify ARM Cortex-M firmware in simulation-based environments with associated RTL and hardware models.
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, and enhance SystemVerilog-based simulation tests and environments that execute ARM Cortex-M firmware with RTL and hardware models.
- Verify firmware behavior across reset, boot, initialization, configuration, sequencing, telemetry, protection, fault handling, and recovery scenarios.
- Analyze C and assembly firmware at source, instruction, register, memory, interrupt, and peripheral levels to diagnose functional and timing failures.
- Develop directed, constrained-random, negative, stress, boundary, and error-injection tests, tracking requirements, functional, and code coverage to closure.
- Run regressions, triage failures, perform waveform and log analysis, and isolate issues across firmware, RTL, models, and testbenches.
- Create verification automation using Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for test execution, log parsing, failure classification, and continuous integration.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Deep understanding of C and assembly-based firmware for ARM Cortex-M processors, including exception/interrupt handling, memory maps, startup code, registers, and peripherals.
- Proven experience in firmware verification, embedded firmware testing, firmware development, or pre-silicon verification.
- Strong ability to debug firmware–hardware interactions using simulation logs, waveforms, memory and register traces, and source-level analysis.
- Proficiency in Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for verification automation and regression infrastructure.
- Familiarity with embedded interfaces such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, or UART.
Nice to have
- Experience verifying PMIC firmware, digital power management, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, or protection features.
- Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, or debugging SystemVerilog-based pre-silicon simulation environments.
- Experience with waveform and debug tools such as SimVision or Verdi.
- Experience with QEMU, emulation, FPGA-based prototyping, or virtual platforms.
- Exposure to UVM or other structured verification methodologies and coverage-driven verification.
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This role has been open 6 days — well below the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
757
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Median days open
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$173k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (757 roles · 88 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 757 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 117 | 6575 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 21 d | 55 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $173k |
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- Qualcomm · 113 open roles · median 67 d
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- Analog Devices · 31 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 757 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 88 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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 — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.