SerDes Firmware Engineer: High-Speed Silicon & Photonics

AMD

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

AMD SerDes Technology team is seeking a SerDes Firmware Engineer with a strong passion for low-level firmware and a solid understanding of electrical and optical PHYs. You will design and develop firmware that bridges high-speed SerDes, silicon photonics, and optical subsystems.

You will work closely with firmware engineers, hardware designers, system architects, and validation teams to enable robust control, calibration, and optimization of next-generation SerDes solutions integrating advanced

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and debug embedded firmware for high-speed SerDes systems, spanning both electrical and optical domains.
Implement firmware control for silicon photonic components, including modulators, photodetectors, lasers, heaters, and tunable optical elements.
Develop firmware interfaces for electrical SerDes PHYs, including configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, and adaptation hooks.
Define and implement calibration, bring-up, and closed-loop control algorithms (e.g., thermal tuning, bias control, signal optimization, link margining).
Collaborate closely with electrical, optical, and mixed-signal hardware teams to define control, telemetry, and debug requirements.
Integrate firmware with lab test infrastructure, production test, and characterization systems to support validation and manufacturing.
Support silicon bring-up, debug and performance tuning across pre-silicon, post-silicon and production phases.