Sr. Firmware Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices
- Markham, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and develop diagnostics software for validation of hardware and firmware features in IPU (Inference Processing Unit) or Security Hardware IP on pre-silicon platforms (Simulation, FPGA, SOC Emulation, etc.) and post-silicon system
- Participate in full product cycles that include pre-silicon diagnostics software development and validation, post-silicon ASIC hardware bring-up, post-silicon diagnostics test execution, validation and debug, and production support
- Collaborate with Hardware IP Design, IP System Engineering, Hardware Design Verification, SOC Design, Firmware, Validation, Software and Debug teams to triage, debug and resolve diagnostics, hardware, firmware, platform, and software issues
- Provide diagnostics support to external customers and internal engineering teams
- Experience in diagnostics software, embedded software/firmware, device driver software development, validation, and debug
- Experience with large-scale software development projects and understanding of hardware features, hardware register-level programming, software/firmware/hardware interfacing
- Proficient in C/C++ object-oriented programming
- Familiar with source controls tools like Git, Perforce, SVN
- Experience in collaboration with Hardware Design, Firmware, Software and Platform Engineers
- Hands-on experience with silicon platform bring-up and validation
- Experience with Image Processing or Security Technology is an asset
- Experience in system software development on Linux is an asset
- Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Science (CS) or equivalent