Dir, Firmware Engineering

Lattice Semiconductor; Pune District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lattice Semiconductor seeks an experienced Firmware Development Director to lead the Pune firmware team responsible for architecture, development, validation, and release of multiple firmware stacks. The role emphasizes secure embedded firmware, OpenTitan/Open standards, and datacenter platform alignment.

The ideal candidate has 15+ years in engineering with at least 5 years in management, deep expertise in embedded firmware, cryptography, and modern tooling, and a track record of scaling

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics/Computer Engineering.
• 15+ years engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Strong firmware expertise for SoCs, FPGAs, or datacenter platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build a Pune firmware team responsible for architecture, development, validation, and release.
• Define secure firmware development lifecycle including threat modelling and code reviews.
• Collaborate with ASIC, RTL, verification, and platform teams to deliver silicon and products.
• Drive security certifications, audits, and post‑silicon bring‑up strategies.
• Mentor engineers, report status to leadership, and accelerate productivity with AI tools.

Skills

Embedded firmware

C/C++

RTOS

Security architectures

Firmware development

System software

OpenTitan/Caliptra knowledge

RISC-V/ARM Cortex

Leadership

Executive presentation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Caliptra

OpenTitan

Job description

Lattice Overview

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Job Summary

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation and customer service, and to that focus we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

We are seeking an experienced Firmware Development Director to lead the Firmware team in Pune. This leader will own firmware development, integration, validation, release, and lifecycle management of the multiple firmware stacks. The ideal candidate combines deep embedded firmware expertise, security architecture knowledge, datacentre platform management experience, and proven success building and scaling world-class engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

Establish and Lead the team in Lattice Pune, building a world-class firmware development team responsible for architecture, development, integration, validation, security, and release of multiple firmware products

• Define secure firmware development lifecycle processes including architecture reviews, threat modelling, code reviews, security validation, firmware signing, release governance, and compliance readiness
• Collaborate closely with ASIC Architecture, RTL Design, Verification, FPGA, Security, Product Engineering, QA, and Solutions organizations to ensure successful silicon and product delivery
• Establish firmware bring‑up, validation, debug, and system integration strategies across pre‑silicon and post‑silicon environments.
• Drive firmware requirements for OCP, security certifications, FIPS readiness, penetration testing support, and security audit activities
• Partner with customers, strategic partners, hyperscale’s, and platform vendors to ensure firmware capabilities align with emerging datacentre and infrastructure requirements
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high‑performing firmware architects, technical leaders, and engineers while fostering a strong engineering culture centered on innovation, quality, execution, and customer success.
• Report program health, risks, dependencies, and execution status to executive leadership with a clear and consistent cadence.
• Leverage Generative AI tools to accelerate software development, documentation, design reviews, testing, debugging, and engineering productivity across the organization.

Required Skills & Experience

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred. Minimum 15+ years of engineering and solutions development experience, including at least 5 years leading and building engineering or solutions teams at the manager or director level.

• Experience in semiconductor, security silicon, FPGA, server infrastructure, BMC, networking, or datacenter industries strongly preferred.
• Strong experience delivering production firmware for complex SoCs, controllers, ASICs, FPGAs, BMCs, security processors, or datacenter platforms.
• Deep expertise in embedded firmware architecture, RUST, C/C++, RTOS, secure firmware, boot loaders, BSP development, firmware update frameworks, and system software.
• Experience with Caliptra, OpenTitan, Open Compute Project security initiatives, SPDM, MCTP, PLDM, or similar security and management frameworks is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of classical cryptography and emerging post‑quantum cryptography technologies including ML‑DSA, ML‑KEM, LMS, XMSS, and crypto‑agility architectures.
• Experience developing firmware for embedded processors such as RISC‑V, ARM Cortex‑M, security controllers, or platform management controllers.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software co‑design and collaboration with ASIC architecture, RTL, verification, and silicon bring‑up teams.
• Working knowledge of firmware security validation, threat modeling, secure debug, vulnerability management, and compliance processes.
• Experience driving software quality and release processes in large‑scale global engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Generative AI productivity tools to improve engineering productivity, software development efficiency, and organizational effectiveness.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry. Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.

Lattice is an international, service‑driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions. Our global workforce shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win.

For more information, visit www.latticesemi.com. You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS.

At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in: India

GROWTH

We foster a culture where everyone strives for continuous learning and development. We challenge ourselves to boldly deliver exceptional growth and value for customers and shareholders.

RELIABILITY

Our customers trust us to deliver, and we take that responsibility seriously. By committing ourselves to dependable supply, support, and solutions, we build strong collaboration that lasts and thrives.

EXECUTION

Innovation turns great ideas into results. Together, we create differentiated products and solutions through disciplined planning, decisiveness, and timely delivery with uncompromising quality.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We own our actions and outcomes: holding ourselves to the highest standards, agilely adapting to change, delivering on our commitments, and empowering each other to drive our success.

TRANSPARENCY

Openness builds trust. We lead with integrity and candor, facing hard facts and embracing tough conversations with clear communication, decisive action, and open honesty at every level.

Lattice is strengthening its leadership in compute, communications, industrial, and embedded markets – underscored by multiple award wins that recognize its innovation, leadership, workplace culture, and collaboration‑driven solutions.

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is the low power programmable leader. For over 40 years, Lattice has driven innovation in the semiconductor industry. Our compact, power‑efficient field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are essential to building a secure, intelligent, and connected world.

Lattice is the #1 supplier of small FPGAs worldwide, with the largest installed base in the industry. Our solutions are trusted by over 11,000 customers globally, spanning the compute, communications, industrial, and embedded markets.

Founded in 1983 in Oregon’s Silicon Forest, Lattice has grown into a global leader with a passionate team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of programmable logic and fostering a culture of innovation.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon with major operations in San Jose, California, Shanghai, China, and Manila, Philippines.