Firmware Development Engineer

Role overview

Mandatory skills

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

Firmware focus areas

• Candidates should strongly match at least one of platform security processor, power management, ABL/memory, or BMC firmware.
• Platform security work includes secure boot, key management, firmware authentication, cryptography, security policies, root of trust, TPM/fTPM, and threat modelling.
• Power management work includes AMD embedded platforms, BIOS, PCIe, UEFI, ACPI, C-states, P-states, D-states, and firmware bring-up.
• ABL/memory work includes DDR4, DDR5, NVDIMM, memory configuration, ECC, SME, SEV, RAS, and low-level hardware debugging.
• BMC work includes side-band and out-of-band server management, OpenBMC, Redfish, PLDM, computer architecture, and scripting.

Engineering responsibilities

• Design, implement, and validate platform security features and PSP firmware when applicable.
• Implement secure boot flows, key-management logic, and firmware authentication when applicable.
• Work across pre-silicon simulation or emulation and post-silicon bring-up environments.
• Develop PMFW and DXIO firmware for AMD embedded platforms when applicable.
• Support BIOS development, power-management flows, PCIe initialization, and platform firmware bring-up.
• Design, develop, test, and review power-management firmware features.
• Enable memory technologies and develop memory-recognition and configuration code.
• Develop BMC firmware for side-band and out-of-band server management.
• Use JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and Lauterbach for low-level debugging.
• Prepare low-level design documents and user guides as applicable.

Workplace

• The workplace is specified as on-site in Bengaluru, India.