Senior Firmware Lead - SoC/GPU Bring-Up & Mentorship

Bolt Graphics, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision premiums 100%

Equity - Stock Options

401(k) match

Job summary

Bolt Graphics, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking an experienced firmware lead engineer to architect, develop, and bring up embedded firmware for advanced digital ICs. You will mentor engineers and drive high-quality firmware delivery across system components.

You will collaborate with architecture, RTL, and software teams to define interfaces, enable GPU orchestration, and ensure robust firmware across power, memory, and interconnect subsystems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of low-level microcontroller firmware development.
• Deep understanding of interrupt schemes, multi-threading, DMA, memory management in embedded environments.
• Solid understanding of low-level software, device drivers, hardware interfaces, and system bring-up.
• Proven track record of leading complex projects from concept to completion.
• Experience with platform initialization and low-level drivers for peripherals (PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO).

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and evolve firmware that coordinates GPU execution, scheduling, context management, and system control.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, Verification, Validation and systems software to drive firmware requirements.
• Develop and maintain embedded firmware, boot software, and drivers for high-speed silicon, memory, interconnect, and power/thermal subsystems.
• Lead root-cause analysis during lab bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, and field returns.
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design and code reviews, and debugging support.
• Coordinate with cross-geo teams to drive program execution and deliver products.

Skills

Firmware development

Interrupts

Multi-threading

DMA

Memory management

Device drivers

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE/CE/CS

Job description

Bolt Graphics, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking an experienced firmware lead engineer to architect, develop, and bring up embedded firmware for advanced digital ICs. You will mentor engineers and drive high-quality firmware delivery across system components.

You will collaborate with architecture, RTL, and software teams to define interfaces, enable GPU orchestration, and ensure robust firmware across power, memory, and interconnect subsystems.