Lead Firmware Software Engineer in Multimedia / Camera
AMD · Posted Oct 26
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About the role
AMD's multimedia and camera firmware team builds software for automotive ISP and camera processing platforms, working closely with silicon, Linux driver, safety, and validation teams on the latest hardware and software technology. The role leads the architecture, development, and optimization of safety-critical firmware for next-generation automotive ISP platforms, including device drivers, boot flows, hardware abstraction layers, and platform bring-up. It also carries technical leadership responsibilities such as architecture direction, technical reviews, risk mitigation, and mentoring engineers.
What you will do
- Define and drive firmware architecture for automotive ISP and camera processing platforms.
- Design, develop, optimize, and debug embedded firmware in C for real-time, safety-critical systems.
- Lead development of device drivers, interrupt handling, DMA, memory management, boot flows, and hardware abstraction layers.
- Drive hardware-software integration, platform bring-up, and system-level debugging.
- Collaborate with silicon, Linux drivers, safety, and validation teams to deliver robust firmware solutions.
- Lead technical reviews and drive engineering best practices.
- Identify technical risks and execute mitigation strategies across complex programs.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
- Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
- Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
- Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
- Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to lead the architecture, development, and optimization of safety-critical firmware for next-generation Automotive ISP platforms. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
Preferred qualifications
- 14+ years of embedded software or firmware development experience.
- Expert-level proficiency in Embedded C and real-time embedded systems with ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
- Automotive ISP firmware and camera processing pipelines.
- ARM Cortex-R52 architecture and multicore systems.
- Hands-on experience with SafeRTOS or other safety-certified RTOS environments
- Device drivers, interrupts, DMA, memory management, and boot loaders.
- Experience with Image sensors and ISP hardware interfaces
- Hardware-software integration and platform bring-up
- Performance optimization and profiling.
- Debugging using JTAG, Lauterbach Trace32, or any other embedded debugging tools.
- Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
- Experience with software development processes and tools such as source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus
- Effective communication and problem-solving skills
- Motivating leader with good interpersonal skills
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor company that designs high-performance central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive processors for data centers, personal computers, gaming consoles, and embedded systems. The company specializes in advanced computing solutions and AI accelerators, positioning itself as a major leader in modern high-performance and artificial intelligence hardware. Through strategic developments and acquisitions, AMD continues to expand its ecosystem across cloud infrastructure, enterprise computing, and physical AI.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 31000 employees
- Founded
- 1969-05-01
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2007-11-16Post Ipo
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