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Firmware Engineer

Software Engineering💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-26 → 2026-09-25

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

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