Sr.Staff Firmware Apps Engineer

Job highlights

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• The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader with extensive firmware development experience,strong debugging capabilities,and a proven track record supporting external customers and complex embedded platforms.

Job Summary

Senior Staff Firmware Development Apps Engineer

The Role

Senior Staff Firmware Development Apps Engineer to join the Embedded x86 Applications Engineering organization.

The Firmware Apps Engineer will provide technical leadership across customer engagements involving firmware architecture, firmware customization, platform enablement, issue triage, root-cause analysis, firmware debugging, engineering escalations, feature requests, and production readiness.

The role requires deep firmware development expertise, strong customer-facing communication skills, and the ability to drive complex technical issues across globally distributed engineering organizations.

The successful candidate will act as the senior firmware subject matter expert for AMD Embedded x86 customers while helping accelerate customer adoption, improve product quality, and reduce issue resolution cycle times.

The Person

The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader with extensive firmware development experience, strong debugging capabilities, and a proven track record supporting external customers and complex embedded platforms.

This person is comfortable operating in highly ambiguous technical environments, translating customer requirements into engineering solutions, driving cross-functional issue resolution, and influencing product direction.

• Strong customer-facing presence with excellent communication skills.
• Deep technical expertise in embedded firmware development and debugging.
• Strong system-level understanding across firmware, BIOS, silicon, operating systems, and platform hardware.
• Comfortable working with FAEs, customer engineers, engineering specialists, and leadership stakeholders.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical excellence.
• Ability to balance customer urgency with engineering execution discipline.
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability.

A self-starter capable of independently driving highly complex technical investigations while providing technical leadership to broader firmware and applications engineering teams.

If you are keen on understanding performance, excited about small gains and are persistent until the solution is found, then this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Customer Technical Ownership

  • Serve as the primary firmware technical lead for Embedded x86 customer engagements.
  • Drive customer escalations involving firmware functionality, integration, customization, and platform enablement.
  • Drive technical discussions with customers, FAEs, and engineering organizations.
  • Influence customer adoption, production readiness, and long-term customer success.

• Firmware Development & Customization

  • Support firmware architecture, design, development, and integration activities.
  • Work with customers to understand firmware feature requirements and implementation needs.
  • Support customer-specific firmware configurations and feature enablement.
  • Evaluate firmware enhancement requests and technical feasibility.

• Advanced Firmware Debug & Root Cause Analysis

  Lead investigations involving embedded firmware environments, platform initialization flows, secure boot and platform security, power management firmware, platform management controllers, firmware-silicon interactions, firmware validation failures, boot and runtime failures, device initialization and enumeration issues, field-reported firmware defects.

• Customer Escalation Management

  • Lead customer-critical firmware escalations.
  • Develop structured debug plans and technical containment strategies.
  • Provide detailed root-cause analysis and customer workaround recommendations.
  • Drive closure across firmware, BIOS, silicon, platform, and validation teams.

• Engineering Collaboration

  • Work closely with Firmware Engineering, BIOS Engineering, Silicon Engineering, Platform Engineering, Validation, Product Management, Program Management.
  • Drive issue prioritization and resolve cross-functional technical dependencies.

• Customer & Field Enablement

  • Support FAEs and customer-facing teams with advanced firmware technical expertise.
  • Conduct architecture reviews and customer technical workshops.
  • Provide firmware guidance, training, and best practices.

• Continuous Improvement & Innovation

  • Develop internal tools to improve debug productivity.
  • Influence future firmware architecture improvements based on customer and field feedback.

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