Firmware Development Engineer

Mandatory Skills

• Expert-level C programming.
• Experience with Git and Gerrit.
• Firmware design, development, debugging, and validation experience.

Candidates should strongly match at least one of the following firmware areas.

A. Platform Security Processor Firmware - High Priority

• Design, implement, and validate platform security features.
• Develop and debug PSP firmware.
• Implement secure boot flows, key-management logic, and firmware authentication.
• Work across pre-silicon simulation/emulation and post-silicon bring-up environments.
• Apply knowledge of cryptography and libraries such as OpenSSL.
• Collaborate with hardware, BIOS/UEFI, and platform security teams.
• Understand security subsystems, security policies, root of trust, TPM/fTPM, and Widevine.
• Apply secure software development lifecycle, threat modelling, and CI/CD practices.
• Understand key provisioning and cryptographic acceleration.

B. Power Management Firmware

• Develop PMFW and DXIO firmware for AMD embedded platforms.
• Understand BIOS, power-management flows, and PCIe device initialisation.
• Work with UEFI BIOS and ACPI specifications.
• Understand C-states, P-states, and D-states.
• Work with power gating, clock gating, reset sequencing, and hot-plug flows.
• Support platform BIOS development and firmware bring-up.
• Design, develop, test, and review PMFW and DXIO features.
• Prepare low-level design documents and user guides.
• AGESA knowledge will be an advantage.

C. ABL/Memory Firmware

• Enable DDR4, DDR5, and NVDIMM technologies.
• Work with UDIMM, SODIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM, and LPDDR.
• Develop memory-recognition and configuration code.
• Debug using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and Lauterbach.
• Understand UMC, FCH, DF, MCLK, FCLK, and UCLK relationships.
• Understand ECC, SME, SEV, and RAS.
• Knowledge of vendor-specific memory implementations and timing differences is desirable.

D. BMC Firmware

• Develop BMC firmware for side-band and out-of-band server management.
• Hands-on OpenBMC stack development experience.
• Experience with Redfish and PLDM.
• Strong C programming and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of computer architecture.
• Experience with Git and Perforce.
• Knowledge of Python and Bash scripting.
• Experience with logic analysers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers.