Senior Firmware Architect for Hyperscale AI Platforms

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Lead Firmware Architect to define and drive firmware architecture for next-generation AI infrastructure. You will shape rack-scale firmware across BIOS, BMC, telemetry, and RAS, collaborating with silicon, hardware, software, and hyperscale customers.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor teams, and push industry standards, enabling scalable, secure, and serviceable firmware solutions for AI deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in firmware, embedded systems, platform architecture, or low-level systems software.
• Proven experience architecting complex embedded firmware solutions across server, accelerator, networking, or data center platforms.
• Strong programming background in C/C++, embedded Linux, U-Boot, RTOS environments, and low-level system software.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture of current and future AMD AI platform firmware solutions, spanning System management, telemetry, diagnostics, and serviceability.
• Architect scalable rack-level firmware frameworks optimized for hyperscale AI training and inference deployments.
• Lead firmware strategy and technical direction across platform bring-up, customer enablement, productization, and lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption of industry standards and emerging technologies including DMTF Redfish, SPDM, PLDM, MCTP, UEFI, ACPI, CXL, and OCP initiatives.
• Partner with silicon architecture teams to influence next-generation platform features, manageability capabilities, telemetry frameworks, and RAS implementations.
• Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and design assessments across firmware stacks.
• Define firmware interfaces between Control Plane, BMC, BIOS, GPUs, CPUs, network fabrics, and rack management infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with hyperscale customers and ecosystem partners to drive platform requirements, feature development, and deployment readiness.
• Drive architectural decisions for fault management, telemetry collection, observability, diagnostics, and platform health monitoring.
• Mentor and develop engineering teams by establishing best practices for firmware architecture, secure development, code quality, and platform integration.
• Lead root cause analysis of complex system-level failures and translate operational learnings into scalable architectural improvements.
• Influence industry standards bodies and open-source communities to advance firmware technologies for AI infrastructure.

Skills

Firmware architecture

Embedded systems

Platform architecture

C/C++

Linux

Security

Education

Bachelor''s or Master''s in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

OpenBMC

IPMI/Redfish

U-Boot

RTOS

BMC

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks a Lead Firmware Architect to define and drive firmware architecture for next-generation AI infrastructure. You will shape rack-scale firmware across BIOS, BMC, telemetry, and RAS, collaborating with silicon, hardware, software, and hyperscale customers.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor teams, and push industry standards, enabling scalable, secure, and serviceable firmware solutions for AI deployments.