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Principal Firmware Architect

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and develop firmware architecture for ASIC and Rack infrastructure, including low-level hardware interfaces, boot flows, and management systems.

Role type

Principal Firmware Architect

Builds

ASIC and Rack infrastructure firmware, boot and management flows

Domain

Data Center hardware infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Firmware architecture design, low-level hardware interface development, firmware debugging, SoC architecture design, platform initialization, hardware/firmware security primitives, peripheral driver implementation (PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UART), memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading, BMC and rack management

Preferred skills

Experience with Data Center class technologies

Technologies

PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UART, BMC

Responsibilities

Drive firmware architecture solutions, define boot and management flows, perform firmware-level debugging, architect new Data Center technologies

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC

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