Staff Firmware Engineer — CPU Telemetry & Drivers

Talentlab • Santa Clara, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

TalentLab is recruiting a Staff Firmware Engineer to work on low-level CPU telemetry infrastructure for next-generation compute platforms. This is a firmware and driver-level systems role, developing the software infrastructure that provides visibility into CPU and platform behaviour. The work involves embedded processors, hardware/software interaction, telemetry and performance instrumentation rather than application-level observability. The underlying position is focused on CPU telemetry tooling across embedded and cloud-edge environments.

Requirements

• Strong embedded software or firmware development experience.
• Advanced C/C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing low-level firmware, device drivers or hardware-facing systems software.
• Strong understanding of CPU/SoC architecture and hardware/software interaction.
• Experience with telemetry, performance counters, PMUs, diagnostics, instrumentation or related low-level performance technologies is particularly relevant.
• Experience debugging complex systems across firmware, drivers and hardware.
• Linux systems knowledge is valuable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Staff-level engineers capable of independently owning complex technical work while providing guidance to other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop low-level CPU telemetry and instrumentation software.
• Develop embedded firmware and driver components used to collect and expose hardware performance information.
• Build software components supporting system observability, diagnostics and performance analysis.
• Debug complex interactions between firmware, drivers, operating systems and hardware.
• Work closely with CPU, hardware, systems and validation engineers.
• Own software design, implementation, unit testing, debugging and integration.
• Perform code reviews, regression testing, issue triage and defect resolution.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and contribute to broader architectural decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior