Dir, Firmware Engineering

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Job Summary

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation and customer service, and to that focus we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

We are seeking an experienced Firmware Development Director to lead the Firmware team in Pune. This leader will own firmware development, integration, validation, release, and lifecycle management of the multiple firmware stacks. The ideal candidate combines deep embedded firmware expertise, security architecture knowledge, datacentre platform management experience, and proven success building and scaling world-class engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Establish and Lead the team in Lattice Pune, building a world-class firmware development team responsible for architecture, development, integration, validation, security, and release of multiple firmware products

• Define secure firmware development lifecycle processes including architecture reviews, threat modelling, code reviews, security validation, firmware signing, release governance, and compliance readiness
• Collaborate closely with ASIC Architecture, RTL Design, Verification, FPGA, Security, Product Engineering, QA, and Solutions organizations to ensure successful silicon and product delivery
• Establish firmware bring-up, validation, debug, and system integration strategies across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Drive firmware requirements for OCP, security certifications, FIPS readiness, penetration testing support, and security audit activities
• Partner with customers, strategic partners, hyperscale’s, and platform vendors to ensure firmware capabilities align with emerging datacentre and infrastructure requirements
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing firmware architects, technical leaders, and engineers while fostering a strong engineering culture centered on innovation, quality, execution, and customer success.
• Report program health, risks, dependencies, and execution status to executive leadership with a clear and consistent cadence.
• Leverage Generative AI tools to accelerate software development, documentation, design reviews, testing, debugging, and engineering productivity across the organization

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum 15+ years of engineering and solutions development experience, including at least 5 years leading and building engineering or solutions teams at the manager or director level.

• Experience in semiconductor, security silicon, FPGA, server infrastructure, BMC, networking, or datacenter industries strongly preferred.
• Strong experience delivering production firmware for complex SoCs, controllers, ASICs, FPGAs, BMCs, security processors, or datacenter platforms.
• Deep expertise in embedded firmware architecture, RUST, C/C++, RTOS, secure firmware, boot loaders, BSP development, firmware update frameworks, and system software.
• Experience with Caliptra, OpenTitan, Open Compute Project security initiatives, SPDM, MCTP, PLDM, or similar security and management frameworks is highly desirable
• Strong understanding of classical cryptography and emerging post-quantum cryptography technologies including ML-DSA, ML-KEM, LMS, XMSS, and crypto-agility architectures
• Experience developing firmware for embedded processors such as RISC-V, ARM Cortex-M, security controllers, or platform management controllers.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design and collaboration with ASIC architecture, RTL, verification, and silicon bring-up teams.
• Working knowledge of firmware security validation, threat modeling, secure debug, vulnerability management, and compliance processes.
• Experience driving software quality and release processes in large-scale global engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Generative AI productivity tools to improve engineering productivity, software development efficiency, and organizational effectiveness
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.

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Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win. For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.