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Firmware Engineering Manager

AMD· Engineering
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Hybrid (Markham)CA$140.8k - CA$0Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Leadership role to build and lead the Data Center GFX Firmware team, owning architecture, execution, and delivery for GFX firmware across the ASIC lifecycle in a Data Center GPU/SOC context.

Responsibilities

  • Recruit, hire, and onboard firmware engineers to build a Data Center GFX FW team from the ground up.
  • Develop onboarding and ramp-up plans including mentorship, technical deep-dives, and coding expectations.
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and career development planning; identify high-potential engineers and create growth paths.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture grounded in technical excellence, psychological safety, and accountability.
  • Establish team norms, coding standards, firmware review processes, and documentation practices.
  • Own the firmware architecture for GFX compute and data center workloads (RLC microcode design, scheduling, power gating sequences, SOC initialization).
  • Drive SOC debug strategies across the ASIC lifecycle (emulation, pre-silicon simulation to production).
  • Collaborate with GFX hardware architects, RTL, driver teams, and platform software engineers on interfaces and feature specs.
  • Provide technical direction on power/performance management, memory controller interactions, interrupt handling, and firmware security primitives.
  • Review and approve firmware architecture documents and micro-architecture specs.
  • Define and track team goals, milestones, and risks; communicate with senior leadership.
  • Own the firmware feature roadmap for Data Center GFX; balance short-term silicon commitments with long-term architectural investment.
  • Drive improvements in firmware quality, test coverage, bring-up velocity, and release reliability.
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies to ensure smooth program execution.

Qualifications

  • Experienced in semiconductor firmware, embedded systems, or SOC software engineering in a management or tech lead role.
  • Proven track record of building new engineering teams and growing engineers rapidly in a fast-paced semiconductor environment.
  • Deep expertise in GFX or SOC architecture, design, and debug including microcode, scheduling, and bring-up.
  • Strong SOC-level debug skills with hardware trace tools, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG, and post-silicon debug across multi-IP SOCs.
  • Hands-on firmware development in C and assembly for embedded microcontrollers (e.g., MEC, PSP, RLC, PMFW cores).
  • Solid understanding of GFX/GPU architecture: command processors, shader engines, memory subsystems, power domains, clock gating.
  • Experience with FPGA-based emulation (Palladium, Veloce) and pre-silicon firmware validation.
  • Track record of mentoring, onboarding programs, or engineering ladders.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication; ability to represent firmware in architecture reviews and executive updates.
  • Familiarity with Python, scripting-based test automation, and firmware CI/CD is a plus.
  • Security/cryptography firmware experience is an asset.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science; PhD is a plus.

Skills

Required:Firmware team leadershipGFX/SOC architecture and debugC and assembly firmware developmentSOC debug toolsCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Python and test automation

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Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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