AI-Driven Firmware & Software Validation Architect

Ampere; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 225,500 - 338,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited flextime

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ampere in Durham, NC seeks a seasoned Firmware/Software Test & Validation Architect to define and lead the performance, reliability, and co-verification strategy for a high‑performance, energy‑efficient AI compute platform.

You will guide testing across firmware, drivers, OS, AI runtimes, and critical applications post-silicon, ensuring robust validation and customer enablement with strong leadership for cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• 10+ years of embedded software/firmware test, verification, or validation experience with 3-5 years in an Architect/Lead role.
• Deep expertise in architing firmware/software test and validation for SoC and hardware platforms.
• Experience with HIL/SIL simulation environments for embedded systems.
• Proficiency in test automation (Robot Framework, pytest) and CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

• Define the overarching test and validation strategy and roadmap for firmware, software, system, and reference layers.
• Architect end-to-end test infrastructure, frameworks, and automation across firmware/software layers.
• Drive integration of Continuous Testing pipelines for all test phases.
• Define methodologies for Fault Injection Testing to validate coverage and failures.
• Specify requirements for execution time/latency analysis of time-critical software components.
• Design strategies for simulation/emulation/virtual platforms for embedded software.
• Lead AI regression and performance benchmarking with KPIs like latency and throughput.

Skills

Firmware testing

Test automation

C/C++

Linux/RTOS

CI/CD pipelines

HIL/SIL

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, or related field

Tools

Robot Framework

Pytest

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Ampere in Durham, NC seeks a seasoned Firmware/Software Test & Validation Architect to define and lead the performance, reliability, and co-verification strategy for a high‑performance, energy‑efficient AI compute platform.

You will guide testing across firmware, drivers, OS, AI runtimes, and critical applications post-silicon, ensuring robust validation and customer enablement with strong leadership for cross-functional teams.