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Firmware Intern

San Jose💼 Internship🗓 2026-02-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop firmware for AI inference chips to enable high-throughput model execution and reliable hardware operation.

Role type

Firmware Intern (Hardware/Software Co-design)

Builds

Firmware for AI inference chips and system initialization code

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Hardware / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C/C++, Rust, data structures and algorithms, low-level software engineering, hardware/software co-design

Preferred skills

Linux internals, kernel development, driver debugging, hardware diagnostics, server virtualization, CI/CD pipelines

Technologies

C, C++, Rust, Linux

Responsibilities

Develop low-level drivers and hardware interfaces, integrate with runtime libraries and model-execution frameworks, validate features and support real-world AI applications, collaborate with hardware and architecture teams to bring up new silicon

Seniority

Intern

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