Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Mueon is seeking a Senior SoC Firmware Engineer to develop the embedded control architecture, low-level firmware, and platform software required to enable, secure, validate, and bring up SoCs. This hands-on role spans embedded controller architecture, firmware development, platform security, fabric management, and system bring-up across simulation, FPGA, emulation, and silicon environments.
What you'll do
- Define embedded control requirements and evaluate and select processors or microcontrollers for SoC subsystems.
- Develop low-level firmware for SoC initialization, configuration, control, monitoring, validation, diagnostics, and telemetry.
- Architect and implement platform security firmware, including Root of Trust, secure boot, key management, trusted initialization, and lifecycle security.
- Develop firmware for on-chip and system-level interconnect, fabric, switch, and system-management functions.
- Define hardware/firmware interfaces in collaboration with SoC architecture and RTL teams, and lead pre-silicon and post-silicon co-debug.
- Enable and validate firmware across simulation, FPGA, emulation, and silicon environments.
What you'll need
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience developing firmware, embedded software, or low-level system software.
- Strong C/C++ programming, debugging, and system-level problem-solving skills.
- Experience developing bare-metal firmware or other low-level system software.
- Understanding of processor-based SoCs, memory-mapped interfaces, interrupts, boot flows, and embedded control.
- Experience implementing or integrating secure boot, Root of Trust, trusted firmware, or related platform-security functionality.
Nice to have
- Experience selecting and integrating embedded processors or microcontrollers.
- Experience with hardware security modules, secure enclaves, attestation, key provisioning, or device lifecycle security.
- Experience with firmware-controlled interconnect, switching, network, or fabric-management subsystems.
- FPGA or hardware-emulation bring-up experience, along with JTAG, low-level diagnostics, crash analysis, and silicon debug.
- Familiarity with RTL, SoC architecture, verification, high-speed interfaces, memory subsystems, or chip-to-chip interconnect.
- Familiarity with AI/ML accelerators or large-scale AI compute systems.
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 56-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
760
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Median days since first seen
56 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$172k
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| Metric | Mueon | All employers we track in this specialty (760 roles · 87 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 760 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 3 | 6574 · 158 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 0 d | 56 d (+56 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $172k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 115 open roles · median 65 d
- NVIDIA · 83 open roles · median 49 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 49 open roles · median 78 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 37 open roles · median 37 d
- Analog Devices · 31 open roles · median 30 d
How we counted: 760 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 87 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 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.