Senior Staff Firmware Engineer: SoC & AI Accelerators

European Tech Recruit; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit partners with a global technology organisation to recruit a Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer. The role covers firmware, low-level platform software for AI accelerators, and hyperscale compute systems, demanding technical leadership across firmware domains.

The candidate will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive cross-functional initiatives from pre-silicon to production, ensuring performance, reliability, and secure boot for large-scale cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 12+ years of professional firmware or low-level system software experience.
• Proven technical leadership across embedded or platform-software programs.
• Deep experience with SoC bring-up and hardware/software integration.
• Strong system-level debugging and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Experience architecting firmware for cloud-scale or hyperscale data-centre platforms.
• Familiarity with platform-management ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of firmware and low-level system software across SoC, board, and platform levels.
• Define and own end-to-end firmware strategy covering boot, reset, debug, security, power management, RAS, IPC, and platform services.
• Drive SoC and platform bring-up across multiple product generations and at large deployment scale.
• Lead hardware/software integration and system-level validation activities.
• Define firmware architectures optimised for scalability, reliability, performance, and large-scale cloud deployment.
• Act as a technical authority and decision-maker across multiple firmware domains.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior and experienced engineers.
• Establish coding, architecture, design, and quality standards across firmware teams.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews and technical decision-making.

Skills

Firmware development

SoC bring-up

System debugging

Technical leadership

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor/Master in EE/CS

Tools

JTAG

Trace

CI/CD

Job description

European Tech Recruit partners with a global technology organisation to recruit a Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer. The role covers firmware, low-level platform software for AI accelerators, and hyperscale compute systems, demanding technical leadership across firmware domains.

The candidate will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive cross-functional initiatives from pre-silicon to production, ensuring performance, reliability, and secure boot for large-scale cloud