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Senior Firmware Validation Engineer

United States, Washington, RedmondFull-time2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Owns coordination, integration, validation, and debugging of system software across server architecture domains (SoC FW, networking, attestation, BMC) for AI training and inference platforms.

Role type

Senior IC firmware validation engineer

Builds

Validated networking solutions from pre-si through datacenter deployment

Domain

Datacenter networking and embedded systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System-level integration and validation, automation framework development, system software debugging, Ethernet layer 1/2 and data center networking operations, firmware development and testing, hardware debugging (JTAG, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer), test plan creation, test content development

Preferred skills

Experience with validation infrastructure setup, managing and triaging production-level issues, release/test automation

Technologies

SoC FW, BMC, Rack Manager, FPGA, Emulation, Simulation, JTAG, Ethernet

Responsibilities

Define and drive networking architectures and validation for scale-up and scale-out deployments, partner across architecture/silicon/firmware/software teams, debug platform-level issues, create automated dashboards for system health and quality, collaborate on long-term roadmap improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC