Silicon Firmware Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 23 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Firmware Engineer in the Power Management Firmware (PMFW) team, you will design, develop, integrate, and debug firmware responsible for power management and platform control across AMD SoCs. The scope spans pre-silicon development and validation through silicon bring-up, production readiness, and customer enablement.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, integrate, and debug platform management and power management firmware for AMD SoCs. - Lead firmware feature development from pre-silicon through silicon bring-up, validation, and production. - Debug complex firmware and hardware interactions and drive issues through root cause and resolution. - Collaborate with architecture, silicon, BIOS, validation, and power teams to define and deliver platform features. - Provide technical leadership, design and code reviews, and mentorship to other firmware engineers.
What you'll need
- Embedded firmware development experience using C and C++. - Experience with SoC power management, boot, reset, initialization, or other low-level platform firmware. - Understanding of SoC architecture and hardware-firmware interfaces. - Experience with pre-silicon development and post-silicon bring-up and debug. - Debugging and root cause analysis skills across firmware and hardware boundaries.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent. - Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development and debugging tools to improve firmware quality and debug efficiency.
This role has been open 0 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
760
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$169k
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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 (760 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 63 | 760 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 393 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 55 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 126 open roles · median 52 d
- Micron Technology · 63 open roles · median 91 d
- AMD (this employer) · 62 open roles · median 40 d
- NVIDIA · 60 open roles · median 56 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 47 open roles · median 43 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 36 open roles · median 30 d
How we counted: 760 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.
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