Senior Firmware Engineer — TF-A & Armv9 Security

Ampere; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 147,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K retirement plan

Unlimited flextime

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ampere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and support low-level platform firmware for Armv9-based systems, focusing on Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) and related platform software. You will work at the intersection of hardware and software to enable secure, high-performance compute platforms.

You will collaborate with hardware design, validation, and software teams throughout the lifecycle—from pre-silicon development on models, emulation, and FPGA platforms through

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong C/C++ and Arm assembly-language programming skills.
• Experience with 32/64-bit Arm architectures (Armv8/Armv9) and low-level firmware development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain TF-A for Armv9-based platforms.
• Define firmware specs, architecture, and technical collateral.
• Enable pre-silicon software support across models, emulation, and FPGA.
• Lead post-silicon platform bring-up and root-cause analysis.
• Debug firmware and boot flows across subsystems; deliver end-to-end features.

Skills

C/C++

Arm assembly

Armv9

Firmware development

Debugging

Embedded systems

Linux

Open-source

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering/CS

Tools

Git

Jenkins

OpenOCD

GDB

Job description

Ampere is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and support low-level platform firmware for Armv9-based systems, focusing on Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) and related platform software. You will work at the intersection of hardware and software to enable secure, high-performance compute platforms.

You will collaborate with hardware design, validation, and software teams throughout the lifecycle—from pre-silicon development on models, emulation, and FPGA platforms through