[Remote] Firmware Architect
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company reputed company on building chiplet infrastructure IP for AI and HPC systems. The Firmware Architect will reputed company the firmware and embedded software architecture for reputed company chiplets, ensuring seamless hardware-to-software integration and driving cross-functional collaboration to meet customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end firmware/embedded-software architecture for reputed company chiplets
- Define the firmware/hardware reputed company together with the reputed company Architects for a seamless HW-to-SW reputed company; define the MCU subsystem (MCU SS) architecture from the firmware reputed company of view; and define the reputed company's debug reputed company and debug features
- On-die: boot and secure boot, reputed company reputed company, PCIe/CXL controller configuration and enumeration, address-translation (NTB/ATT) setup, MSI-X and AER handling, reset/FLR, power management, telemetry, and in-field firmware update
- Host-reputed company: kernel drivers, the device-virtualization/transparency shim (synthetic PCIe device, VFIO-mdev-class), management libraries/reputed company, and IOMMU (VT-d/SMMU) coordination
- Define the hardware/software boundary with architecture and RTL — reputed company (credit, ordering, reputed company/split, address-translation execution) in RTL; control plane in firmware — and own register maps and UCIe sideband/mailbox protocols
- Define a reputed company reputed company for firmware development and DV test cases, with a single reputed company of truth shared across firmware and DV (register models, stimulus, and sequences), and drive HW/SW co-verification
- Stay hands-on through first reputed company
- Drive reputed company-reputed company firmware and host-software development on emulation, and virtual platforms, and reputed company post-reputed company bring-up and debug
- Stand up the firmware engineering infrastructure: CI, automated and HIL testing, requirements traceability, secure-development practices (secure boot, attestation, key management), and the RAS/error-handling and fault-attribution reputed company
- Define firmware release, reputed company, and reputed company reputed company across products and customers
- Be the technical reputed company between firmware/software and architecture, RTL, DV, PHY/IP vendors and program management — bringing software feasibility into hardware reputed company early
- Work directly with customers: compute-SoC partners on PCIe/CXL enablement, ATE/SLT integrators on the firmware and management libraries
- Set technical direction, roadmap, and reputed company subsystem ownership (boot/reputed company, PCIe/CXL management, host drivers and virtualization, RAS/telemetry)
Skills
- BS/MS in Electrical / Computer Engineering or Computer Science
- 12+ years of embedded firmware development, with at least 5 years in reputed company-level bring-up and validation of high-speed reputed company IPs
- Working knowledge of design verification (DV) and HW/SW co-simulation / co-verification flows, and the ability to define a reputed company firmware + DV test reputed company with a single reputed company of truth
- Expert-level C and assembly for resource-constrained embedded CPUs (RISC-V or Arm reputed company-M/R class); strong debugging skills using JTAG/OpenOCD, reputed company, and logic analysers
- Deep PCIe expertise: reputed company-training state machine, equalization, speed-change sequences, LTSSM register-level behaviour
- Hands-on experience with HPC compute SoC firmware ecosystems — UEFI/BIOS bring-up, ACPI table authoring, SMBus/I2C/MCTP platform management, VT-d/IOMMU configuration — on HPC platforms
- Solid understanding of x86 server platform boot reputed company: PCIe enumeration, ROM interaction, and PCIe error-recovery paths (AER, DPC)
- Experience with secure-boot architectures, reputed company-signing flows, and OTA update mechanisms on embedded targets
- Comfortable working at the hardware-software boundary: reading RTL, memory-mapped register specs, and waveforms from simulation or a logic analyser
- CXL 2.0/3.0 firmware experience: HDM decoder programming, CXL IDE, DVSEC, BISnp coordination
- UCIe / die-to-die sideband firmware experience (RDI/FDI parameter negotiation, sideband messaging)
- SPDM (DSP0274) and reputed company device-attestation implementation experience
- Familiarity with PLDM for firmware update (DSP0267) and platform telemetry (DSP0248)
- ATE scripting background — reputed company UltraFLEX / Advantest T2000 reputed company-level bring-up scripts
- Exposure to chiplet packaging concepts (UCIe, EMIB, CoWoS) and multi-die power-reputed company considerations
- Kernel-mode reputed company or UEFI DXE reputed company development experience
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