Firmware Engineer

Neurophos•Austin, TX

11d•$125,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a talented Firmware Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is focused on low-level firmware development for our novel LLM accelerator architecture. You will develop code for the firmware layer that directly controls our custom hybrid optical-electronic compute hardware, ensuring reliable operation and optimal performance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
3–5 years of professional experience in firmware engineering, embedded systems, or low-level systems programming
High proficiency in embedded C++ (essential), Python for tooling and automation
Experience with embedded systems programming and hardware interfaces
Familiarity with computer architecture, memory hierarchies, and parallel computing concepts
Experience with hardware communication protocols and register-level programming

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Experience with lower speed peripheral busses (I2C/SPI/UART/CAN/LIN)
Some experience with PCIe interfaces
Some experience with Ethernet interfaces
Experience with embedded processor architectures (ARM, RISC-V, or similar) and associated toolchains (strongly preferred)
Experience with early firmware development on virtual platforms and/or fast C simulators (preferred)
Hands-on experience with cross-compiler toolchains (preferred)
Experience with Docker containers for development and delivery (preferred)
Experience debugging parallel and asynchronous programs (strongly preferred)
Experience with bare metal programming and RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar) (preferred)
Experience with structured, human-supervised AI/agentic coding workflows (preferred)
Experience with multi-node embedded systems, including inter-node communication and coordination (strongly preferred)
Experience with multi-processor systems, including IPC and shared memory coordination (preferred)
Experience designing adaptive and retargetable firmware architectures (preferred)
Experience with over-the-air update systems for embedded devices (preferred)
Ability to read and understand RTL code for debugging and hardware-software co-design
Experience with AI/ML accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs) and their programming models
Experience with high-performance computing and low-latency system design
Experience with thermal management and power optimization in embedded systems
Familiarity with Large Language Model architectures and their computational requirements (preferred)
Some familiarity or understand of AMBA, AXI, PCIe, on processors and ROCv1/2, Infiniband over networks
Verilog/SystemVerilog (reading comprehension)
ModelSim, Questasim, or similar simulation tools (nice to have)
Inter-node communication, message passing, distributed state management (nice to have)

Responsibilities

Contributing to low-level firmware to orchestrate execution of LLM workloads across hardware accelerator components
Contributing to system and board management of such a system
Create debugging and profiling tools for firmware and hardware interaction
Collaborate with hardware engineers to define software-hardware interfaces
Optimize end-to-end performance from application layer to hardware execution
Develop comprehensive testing and validation frameworks
Create documentation and specifications for firmware interfaces
Support customer integration and provide technical guidance

Benefits

100% coverage of base health plan premiums for you and your dependents, plus HSA contributions.
Unlimited PTO.
401(k) matching
stock option opportunities
Full suite of voluntary benefits, including Dental, Vision, Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance.
Personalized Benefits. Choose the plans that fit your life and take the cash back for those that don’t.

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