# Firmware Engineer

About the role Own the platform firmware that brings our AI accelerator systems to life and keeps them secure, healthy, and observable - from secure boot and the hardware root of trust, through embedded-controller/BMC and device firmware, to power management, telemetry, and the debug infrastructure that keeps the platform running at scale. What You'll Do Platform firmware - develop firmware across the stack: boot ROM/bootloaders, embedded controllers / BMC, and device firmware for our accelerator silicon and systems Secure boot & root of trust - measured/verified boot, code signing and chain-of-trust, authenticated firmware update (anti-rollback), and secure debug Power management - power sequencing, PMIC/voltage-rail control, DVFS, and power/thermal protection and budgeting Monitoring & telemetry - sensors, health/RAS, error logging, and platform management/observability interfaces Debug & bring-up - JTAG/scan and debug infrastructure; board and post-silicon bring-up Partner with silicon/architecture, hardware/board, and software teams on firmware interfaces, threat modeling, and HW/SW co-design Assisted tool flows to accelerate development and review What We're Looking For Strong

- **Id**: 1238098
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/densityai-firmware-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-01T15:42:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:35:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 133
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4462
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Compute & Inference, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 1991793
- **Name**: DensityAI
- **Domain**: densityai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/densityai>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 119
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 220000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275000

## Technologies

- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SBOM** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 132

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:18:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 26; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 7; Filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.834
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 132
- **Expected fill days**: 119
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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