Firmware & Software Validation Architect for AI Compute

Ampere; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 225,500 - 338,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K retirement plan

Unlimited flextime

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ampere seeks a visionary Firmware/Software Test & Validation Architect to define and guide the test and validation strategy for our Arm-based reference platforms. You will establish robust quality frameworks spanning firmware, drivers, OS, AI runtimes, and applications post-silicon, ensuring hardware-software co-verification and customer enablement.

You will lead the creation of scalable test infrastructures, automate pipelines, and drive best practices across Verification teams, collaborating

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define the overarching test and validation strategy and roadmap for Firmware, Software, System, and Reference Solution layers of Arm-based reference hardware platforms.
• Architect the end-to-end test infrastructure, frameworks, and methodologies for robust, scalable, automated testing across firmware/software layers.
• Drive integration of Continuous Testing (CT) pipelines for all test phases.
• Define methodologies for Fault Injection Testing (FIT) to validate diagnostic coverage and failure mechanisms.
• Specify requirements and guide execution time/latency analysis for time-critical software components.
• Design strategies for simulation/emulation/virtual platforms for embedded firmware and software.
• Develop AI regression and performance benchmarking strategies with relevant KPIs (latency, throughput, power) and test harnesses.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Linux/RTOS

Python

Robot Framework

pytest

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub/GitLab runners

HIL/SIL

Arm architecture

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, CS, AI, or related

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub/GitLab

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Ampere seeks a visionary Firmware/Software Test & Validation Architect to define and guide the test and validation strategy for our Arm-based reference platforms. You will establish robust quality frameworks spanning firmware, drivers, OS, AI runtimes, and applications post-silicon, ensuring hardware-software co-verification and customer enablement.

You will lead the creation of scalable test infrastructures, automate pipelines, and drive best practices across Verification teams, collaborating