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2027 Masters Firmware Engineering Co-op/Intern

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Hybrid (San Jose, CA), Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$83.2kUNAVAILABLEPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Firmware Engineering intern/co-op position at AMD focused on developing, debugging, and delivering firmware for discrete and embedded AMD products. Involves working with reference hardware/software, pre-silicon environments, AGILE processes, design/code reviews, and documentation. Location options in San Jose or Santa Clara, CA; full-time term with hybrid or onsite arrangement.

Responsibilities

  • Craft, implement, debug, and validate features on reference hardware and software, pre-silicon emulation and simulation environments supporting AMD products
  • Actively participate in design reviews, code reviews and project planning
  • Build and complete clear documentation for all software produced
  • Work on internal and external platforms
  • Learn and apply AGILE methodologies and standard software engineering processes
  • Engage in x86 firmware development using C
  • Design, build and implementation of embedded firmware + bootrom/HW
  • Debug issues at the boundary of FW and HW; involve waveform level analysis to root cause FW/HW issues

Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a US-based university in a Master’s program majoring in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • Knowledge or experience in any of the following (strongly encouraged to apply): low level BIOS/firmware/system software development; C/C++ and hardware architectures; embedded systems, RTOS, embedded controller structure; source control, debuggers, compilers and system-wide debugging; Open source concepts; VHDL/Verilog/FPGA and general hardware design concepts; Linux development environments; graphics/compute pipelines architecture understanding; Perforce, JIRA, Git or similar tools

Skills

Required:CC++Embedded firmware
Nice to have:VHDL/Verilog/FPGALinuxAGILE methodologiesVersion control (Perforce, Git, JIRA)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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