Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

EnCharge AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EnCharge AI in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Staff Firmware Engineer/Director to lead firmware and embedded software for our AI accelerator platform. You will shape architecture, guide bring-up, and drive performance optimizations across hardware and software teams.

The role requires hands-on leadership, 8+ years in firmware or embedded software, strong C++ and RTOS expertise, and collaboration with silicon, compiler, and systems groups to deliver low-latency AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of firmware or embedded software experience.
• Experience shipping firmware for high-performance computing or AI accelerators.
• Deep knowledge of firmware architecture, RTOS, drivers, and memory subsystems.
• Strong C++ (C++17+) expertise and profiling methods.
• Experience with PCIe, UCIe, HBM, DDR, DMA, and SoC debugging.
• Ability to collaborate with silicon design and compiler teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the firmware and embedded software strategy for our AI accelerator stack.
• Architect system software components that interface directly with hardware blocks and DMA engines.
• Oversee development of firmware, bootloaders, drivers, and runtime control software for low-latency AI execution.
• Lead bring-up, diagnostics, and debug for new silicon platforms with hardware and compiler teams.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team across firmware, embedded, and systems software.
• Establish robust software processes, CI/CD pipelines, and test infrastructure for hardware-in-loop validation.
• Ensure seamless integration of firmware with runtimes and orchestration layers.
• Partner with silicon architects to co-design features maximizing throughput and power efficiency.
• Work with hardware, compiler, and ML runtime teams on software-hardware co-optimization strategies.
• Collaborate with product and customer teams for bring-up and deployment.

Skills

Firmware development

Embedded software

C++17+

Performance profiling

Leadership

System software

Job description

We need someone who has built firmware using modern c+

Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

About the Role

EnCharge AI is seeking an experienced Director of Firmware & Embedded Software to lead the development of low-level software that powers our next-generation AI accelerator platform. This role is pivotal in bridging silicon and software - ensuring our hardware delivers best-in-class performance, efficiency, and reliability for cutting-edge AI workloads. You’ll lead a team of engineers responsible for firmware architecture, hardware bring-up, driver development, and performance optimization. The ideal candidate is hands-on, strategic, and deeply familiar with the challenges of scaling embedded systems for high-performance compute.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the firmware and embedded software strategy for our AI accelerator stack.
• Architect system software components that interface directly with hardware blocks, DMA engines, device-to-device and on-chip interconnects.
• Oversee development of firmware, bootloaders, drivers, and runtime control software enabling low-latency AI execution.
• Lead bring-up, diagnostics, and debug for new silicon platforms in close collaboration with hardware and compiler teams.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team across firmware, embedded, and systems software.
• Establish robust software processes, CI/CD pipelines, and test infrastructure for hardware-in-loop validation.
• Ensure seamless integration of firmware with runtimes, and orchestration layers.
• Partner with silicon architects to co-design features that maximize utilization, throughput, and power efficiency.
• Work closely with hardware, compiler, and ML runtime teams to define software-hardware co-optimization strategies.
• Partner with product and customer teams to support bring-up, tuning, and deployment in customer environments.
• Represent firmware and embedded software in company-level technical reviews and roadmap planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in firmware or embedded software development
• Proven experience shipping firmware/software for high-performance computing, GPUs, AI accelerators, or SoCs.
• Deep understanding of firmware architecture, RTOS, drivers, memory subsystems, power management, and low-level I/O.
• Strong knowledge of C++ (C++17 and beyond ), embedded toolchains, and performance profiling methodologies.
• Familiarity with PCIe, UCIe, HBM, DDR, DMA, interrupt handling, cache coherency, and SoC debug.
• Experience collaborating with silicon design, compiler/runtime, and systems software teams.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills - able to drive alignment across