System Software/Embedded Engineer (Diagnostics) - Sunnyvale, United States
Originally posted 8 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the design and development of system-level services, tools, and supporting tests for Tensordyne's AI inference platform software, including diagnostics, debugging, and analysis capabilities.
What you'll do
- Lead requirements gathering, design, and development of system-level services, tools, and tests for AI inference platform software.
- Support cross-functional engineering teams in the bring-up and validation of platform software on AI inference systems.
- Work with manufacturing test teams to integrate platform tooling into production test scripts and manufacturing diagnostics packages.
- Work close to the hardware on firmware, board bring-up, bootloaders, BSP development, device drivers, and Linux kernel modules.
- Collaborate with silicon and hardware teams on hardware/software co-design.
- Optimize system-level performance and power across the AI inference platform using low-level interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, and JTAG.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience developing low-level systems and embedded software, firmware, and tooling for high-performance computing systems.
- Hands-on experience bringing up and debugging complex Linux-based systems at the kernel and driver level, including embedded Linux, device drivers, and/or RTOS environments.
- Expert programming experience in C and C++.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash/Shell, Tcl/Expect, and/or related programming languages.
- Comfort interfacing directly with hardware, reading schematics and datasheets, and debugging with tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience with SoC/silicon bring-up.
- Familiarity with AI inference frameworks and data center deployment/management environments.
- Rust experience.
Skills: embedded software, firmware, Linux kernel, device drivers, board bring-up, JTAG
This role has been open 80 days — well above the 54-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
54 d
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Median salary
$169k
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| Metric | Tensordyne | All employers we track in this specialty (730 roles · 83 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 730 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 11 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 54 d (+26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded software, firmware, Linux kernel, device drivers, board bring-up, JTAG
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 119 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 65 open roles · median 36 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 86 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 60 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 46 open roles · median 39 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 32 open roles · median 33 d
How we counted: 730 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 83 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.