Senior GPU Firmware Engineer

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SENIOR GPU FIRMWARE ENGINEER 

THE ROLE:

Join AMD's Datacenter firmware application team as a Firmware Application Engineer, supporting our GPU customers across Cloud, HPC, and OEM segments. In this customer-centric role, you will collaborate with external OEM partners, internal development and validation teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to bring next-generation server platforms to market powered by AMD's Instinct Accelerators—and ensure their successful deployment in customer data centers.

THE PERSON:

An ideal candidate should be familiar with embedded/firmware development, GPU driver/runtime, OS kernel internals, microcontroller fundamentals, hardware power/frequency controls, etc. He/she should be comfortable at performing quantitative analysis of workload, pinpoint issues, and drive improvements together with upper layer stack to achieve the ultimate performance.

You are a hands-on technical problem solver who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software. You enjoy collaborating directly with customers and internal engineering teams to turn complex system challenges into actionable solutions. .

You'll excel in this role if you:

• Are energized by customer engagement and technical troubleshooting.
• Have strong analytical instincts and a structured approach to problem solving.
• Communicate clearly and proactively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Enjoy collaborating across hardware, firmware, and software disciplines.
• Bring curiosity, creativity, and persistence to complex engineering challenges.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage technical interaction with OEM/ODM Partners to enable deployment of AMD Instinct Accelerators in Partner systems.
• Work alongside hardware and upper software layers to co-optimize the whole AI software stack
• Design and build tools for better collecting/presenting GPU performance details corelating to low-level hardware characteristics
• Support Partners in the bring-up and validation of AMD Instinct GPUs in their system, guide partners on use of AMD tools, qualification test methods, and analysis of test results.
• Lead the debug of Partner/Customer issues (firmware, HW, driver), working with a cross-functional team and driving the root cause investigation.
• Work with Partners on the development of manufacturing/screen tests to ensure reliability at scale.
• Understand Partner requirements and schedule, identify gaps in AMD offering and work with other stakeholders to close them.
• Author design guideline, technical presentations, and training material.
• Provide recommendation to improve customer experience with our SW and HW.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Experience with firmware developments
• Experience with embedded software development
• Experience with power management and control theory
• Experience working on system level reliability and resiliency features
• Familiarity with OS kernel/driver internals
• Familiarity with GPU architectures and runtimes
• Familiarity with microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)
• Strong C/C++ programming skills  
• Strong knowledge in PC/server architecture and interfaces, experience with system level debug.
• Strong System Level debugging skills with hands-on experiences in system bring-up, HW debug, and performance optimizations on various system architectures.
• Understanding and experience working with Enterprise Linux environment (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL and SLES).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate technical results clearly and accurately.
• Experience or knowledge of server firmware/BIOS settings, boot process, server monitoring and management SW.
• Solid knowledge of Shell/BASH, C/C++, Python, or other framework.
• Experience with OpenCL, CUDA, or ROCm is a plus.

PREFERRED ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS/MS (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related equivalent)  

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA 

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