Senior Embedded Firmware Lead

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

AMD's DC GPU Firmware team is seeking a Senior Embedded Firmware Lead to drive and deliver modular, high-quality, extensible firmware for AMD EPYC servers, Data Center GPU products, and AI racks. The role combines hands-on embedded firmware expertise with technical leadership across architecture, development, debugging, and QA. The successful candidate will work with architecture, firmware QA, silicon validation, platform, and customer-facing engineering teams. As a member of the technical management staff, the lead will help shape strategy for continuous integration, improved development processes, product quality, and productivity. The position also supports early technology enablement, customer escalations, and the development of AMD's differentiated embedded features.

Requirements

Strong C/C++ development skills and a good understanding of object-oriented design.
Ability to turn loosely defined goals or complex problems into structured plans and drive them to closure.
Ability to organize, delegate, and deliver large, complex programs.
Ability to drive multi-geography projects effectively with remote teams.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment with a bias toward action and results.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal, listening, and written communication skills within the team and across the organization.
Ability to mentor, coach, teach, and facilitate change in a highly technical, dynamic team.
Bachelor of Technology or BS in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent, preferred.

Nice To Haves

Relevant industry experience and a track record of shipping server, storage, or networking products for enterprise, cloud data center, and service provider markets.
Experience as a technical expert leading a core engineering team and managing complex architecture products across firmware, drivers, and OS stacks.
Experience customizing firmware for different platforms and features.
Customer-facing or applications engineering experience.
Experience architecting, designing, and developing complex system or infrastructure software for embedded networking systems on Linux or another RTOS.
Deep understanding of the full product life cycle, Agile and Waterfall software development methods, and development and build environments.

Responsibilities

Lead and drive embedded firmware development and QA for new and sustaining AMD EPYC Server and DC GPU products.
Own program outcomes across firmware architecture, design, development, and debugging.
Partner with Platform and SW Architecture teams to bring up BIOS and firmware during Embedded SoC bring-up.
Work with HW and Silicon Validation teams to verify embedded features in silicon IP.
Guide software engineers through design, code, and licensing reviews for open-source and closed-source code.
Provide product and technology feedback and consultancy to Enterprise Product Management, Enterprise Server Systems and SW teams, and AMD technology and product planning.
Support field requests and escalations from the Customer Applications Engineering team.
Build on Core Engineering work in Client and Server teams, focusing on differentiating features for the Embedded business.
Develop software proofs of concept for early enablement of new technologies.
Mentor team members in technical and soft skills.
Train and enable Applications Engineers and FAEs on software solutions, with a focus on AMD's differentiated features and technologies.