Firmware Engineer
Core
Develop firmware and low-level drivers for custom AI ASICs (Sohu) to optimize transformer model performance and enable real-time generative AI workloads.
Role type
Firmware Engineer (AI Hardware)
Builds
Custom AI ASICs (Sohu) for transformer-based models
Domain
AI Hardware / Semiconductor / Embedded Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Firmware design and implementation, Embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM), Data structures and algorithms, Software development for launching products, Troubleshooting
Preferred skills
Customer issue resolution, Solving ambiguous problems
Technologies
I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM
Responsibilities
Co-develop software optimized across hardware and software for very large transformer models, Solve challenging problems across the full stack from low-level drivers to high-level applications, Contribute to the development of AI solutions for NLP and generative media
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC