About the role
AMD is seeking a Staff Firmware System Test Engineer to join the firmware team, validating new firmware and software features at a system level before customer release.
What you'll do
- Own system-level validation of major features end to end, including test plans, automation, execution, and sign-off.
- Validate new firmware and software features for AMD products, leveraging AI tools within the software validation cycle.
- Author comprehensive test plans, conduct stakeholder reviews, and execute tests across system environments.
- Build maintainable automated test scripts, review and triage failures, verify fixes, and reproduce customer-reported issues.
- Debug complex technical issues across firmware, CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators in collaboration with peer teams.
- Lead test plan reviews and mentor junior engineers within an Agile development process.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Established experience in system testing, validation, or test automation, specifically within firmware test and automation roles.
- Proficiency in writing automation scripts and frameworks in Python, along with experience using test and performance-testing tools.
- Understanding of AI tools and how to leverage them in a large-scale distributed environment.
- Knowledge of operating systems, kernel-mode programming, device drivers, and related architectures.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and understanding of the Linux operating system and hypervisors (VMware ESX, KVM).
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.
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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.