Staff Firmware Engineer — CPU Telemetry & Drivers

Talentlab; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentLab seeks a Staff Firmware Engineer to design and implement low-level CPU telemetry and drivers. You’ll develop embedded firmware, driver components, and tooling to expose hardware performance data across embedded and cloud-edge platforms.

You’ll collaborate with CPU, hardware, systems and validation teams, own design and testing, perform reviews, and guide other engineers on complex software interactions.

Qualifications

• Strong embedded software or firmware development experience.
• Advanced C/C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing low-level firmware, device drivers or hardware-facing systems software.
• Strong understanding of CPU/SoC architecture and hardware/software interaction.
• Experience with telemetry, performance counters, PMUs, diagnostics, instrumentation or related low-level performance technologies is particularly relevant.
• Experience debugging complex systems across firmware, drivers and hardware.
• Linux systems knowledge is valuable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop low-level CPU telemetry and instrumentation software.
• Develop embedded firmware and driver components used to collect and expose hardware performance information.
• Build software components supporting system observability, diagnostics and performance analysis.
• Debug complex interactions between firmware, drivers, operating systems and hardware.
• Work closely with CPU, hardware, systems and validation engineers.
• Own software design, implementation, unit testing, debugging and integration.
• Perform code reviews, regression testing, issue triage and defect resolution.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and contribute to broader architectural decisions.

Skills

Embedded software/firmware

C/C++ programming

Linux knowledge

Diagnostics & instrumentation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / CS

Tools

Device drivers

Telemetry tooling

Hardware interfaces

Job description

Staff Firmware Engineer — CPU Telemetry & Drivers

Staff Firmware Engineer — CPU Telemetry & Drivers

Location: Markham, ON / Austin, TX / Santa Clara, CA
Focus: Embedded firmware, drivers, CPU telemetry

TalentLab is recruiting a Staff Firmware Engineer to work on low-level CPU telemetry infrastructure for next-generation compute platforms.

This is a firmware and driver-level systems role, developing the software infrastructure that provides visibility into CPU and platform behaviour. The work involves embedded processors, hardware/software interaction, telemetry and performance instrumentation rather than application-level observability. The underlying position is focused on CPU telemetry tooling across embedded and cloud-edge environments.

What you'll work on

• Design and develop low-level CPU telemetry and instrumentation software.
• Develop embedded firmware and driver components used to collect and expose hardware performance information.
• Build software components supporting system observability, diagnostics and performance analysis.
• Debug complex interactions between firmware, drivers, operating systems and hardware.
• Work closely with CPU, hardware, systems and validation engineers.
• Own software design, implementation, unit testing, debugging and integration.
• Perform code reviews, regression testing, issue triage and defect resolution.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and contribute to broader architectural decisions.

What we're looking for

• Strong embedded software or firmware development experience.
• Advanced C/C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing low-level firmware, device drivers or hardware-facing systems software.
• Strong understanding of CPU/SoC architecture and hardware/software interaction.
• Experience with telemetry, performance counters, PMUs, diagnostics, instrumentation or related low-level performance technologies is particularly relevant.
• Experience debugging complex systems across firmware, drivers and hardware.
• Linux systems knowledge is valuable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.

The source role is Staff-level and calls for engineers capable of independently owning complex technical work while providing guidance to other engineers.