Sr. Firmware Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
Design, develop, and debug firmware solutions for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization.
About the role
This role involves designing, developing, and debugging firmware solutions for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization. The engineer will develop new firmware and test suites for new processors.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and debug firmware solutions.
- Develop new firmware and test suites for new processors.
- Collaborate with customers and partners on new initiatives.
- Resolve technical challenges.
- Align efforts across engineering teams and business units.
What you'll need
- Low-level software or embedded firmware development experience.
- Proven foundation in C and C++ programming.
- Experience with computer architecture.
- Experience with source control systems such as git.
- Experience with processor, board, or ASIC new product bring-up.
- An understanding of embedded firmware or device driver development.
- An understanding of assembly level programming and optimizations.
- Experience working with RTOS and other embedded OS environments.
Nice to have
- Experience working on x86 server platforms.
- Proven foundation in Rust programming.
- Experience with GoogleTest framework.
- Experience with pre-silicon development on FPGAs or simulation environments.
- An understanding of PCIe, TDISP, SPDM, Virtualization, and IOMMU.
- Experience with security related technologies such as Secure Boot, TPM, AES, DES, RSA, AMD Secure Memory Encryption, AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization.
- Experience with JTAG debuggers and other tools.
- Experience with PCIe, TDISP, SPDM, Virtualization programming.
Skills: embedded firmware, device driver development, pre-silicon development on FPGAs, board/processor/ASIC bring-up, C programming
This role has been open 83 days — well above the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
730
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$169k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (730 roles · 83 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 65 | 730 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 406 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 37 d | 55 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded firmware, device driver development, pre-silicon development on FPGAs, board/processor/ASIC bring-up, C programming
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 119 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD (this employer) · 65 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 87 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 61 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 46 open roles · median 40 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 32 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 730 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 83 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.