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Lead Embedded Firmware Architect

AMD· Engineering
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Austin, TX$200kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead firmware architect role within AMD's Data Center Platform Engineering (DPEG) to define and drive firmware architecture for next-generation AI infrastructure platforms, spanning BIOS, BMC, telemetry, RAS, and platform security for hyperscale deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the architecture of current and future AMD AI platform firmware solutions, spanning System management, telemetry, diagnostics, and serviceability.
  • Architect scalable rack-level firmware frameworks optimized for hyperscale AI training and inference deployments.
  • Lead firmware strategy and technical direction across platform bring-up, customer enablement, productization, and lifecycle management.
  • Drive adoption of industry standards and emerging technologies including DMTF Redfish, SPDM, PLDM, MCTP, UEFI, ACPI, CXL, and OCP initiatives.
  • Partner with silicon architecture teams to influence next-generation platform features, manageability capabilities, telemetry frameworks, and RAS implementations.
  • Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and design assessments across firmware stacks.
  • Define firmware interfaces between Control Plane, BMC, BIOS, GPUs, CPUs, network fabrics, and rack management infrastructure.
  • Collaborate closely with hyperscale customers and ecosystem partners to drive platform requirements, feature development, and deployment readiness.
  • Drive architectural decisions for fault management, telemetry collection, observability, diagnostics, and platform health monitoring.
  • Mentor and develop engineering teams by establishing best practices for firmware architecture, secure development, code quality, and platform integration.
  • Lead root cause analysis of complex system-level failures and translate operational learnings into scalable architectural improvements.
  • Influence industry standards bodies and open-source communities to advance firmware technologies for AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in firmware, embedded systems, platform architecture, or low-level systems software development.
  • Proven experience architecting complex embedded firmware solutions across server, accelerator, networking, or data center platforms.
  • Strong expertise in platform firmware technologies including: OpenBMC, IPMI and DMTF standards such as Redfish, Embedded Linux-based systems.
  • Deep understanding of server platform architecture, including: x86 processors and GPU-accelerated systems, Memory subsystems, High-speed I/O architectures, Data center networking.
  • Experience with modern AI infrastructure technologies such as: PCIe Gen5/Gen6, CXL, UALink, XGMI, Accelerator fabrics, Rack-scale architecture.
  • Experience designing firmware solutions for system management, telemetry, diagnostics, and RAS features in hyperscale environments.
  • Hands-on experience debugging complex interactions across firmware, hardware, operating systems, drivers, and management software.
  • Strong programming background in C/C++, embedded Linux, U-Boot, RTOS environments, and low-level system software.
  • Experience with secure coding practices and static/dynamic analysis tools such as Coverity, Black Duck, or equivalent technologies.
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and influencing architectural decisions across multiple organizations.

Skills

Required:Firmware architectureEmbedded systemsC/C++
Nice to have:OpenBMCRedfish/IPMI/DMTFUEFI/ACPI

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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