Senior Firmware Engineer - TF-A on Armv9

Ampere; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited flextime

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ampere in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and support low-level firmware for Armv9-based systems, focusing on TF-A and related platform software.

You will collaborate across hardware and software teams from pre-silicon to post-silicon bring-up, troubleshooting, and customer support, delivering robust, secure compute platforms for AI, cloud, and edge applications.

Qualifications

• Strong C/C++ and Arm assembly skills.
• Hands-on with 32/64-bit Arm (Armv8/Armv9).
• Experience with low-level firmware and TF-A/ATF.
• Knowledge of Git, CI tools, and issue tracking.
• Experience with hardware/software debugging tools (JTAG, GDB, OpenOCD).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain TF-A for Armv9 platforms.
• Define firmware architecture and technical collateral.
• Enable pre-silicon software support across models and emulation.
• Lead post-silicon platform bring-up and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams for readiness.

Skills

C/C++

Arm assembly

Armv9

Firmware development

TF-A/ATF

Git/Jenkins

Debugging

JTAG/OpenOCD

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Bugzilla

Jira

GDB

OpenOCD

TRACE32

JTAG

Job description

Ampere in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and support low-level firmware for Armv9-based systems, focusing on TF-A and related platform software.

You will collaborate across hardware and software teams from pre-silicon to post-silicon bring-up, troubleshooting, and customer support, delivering robust, secure compute platforms for AI, cloud, and edge applications.