Mandatory Skills
- Expert-level C programming.
- Experience with Git and Gerrit.
- Firmware design, development, debugging, and validation experience.
Candidates should strongly match at least of the following firmware areas.
A. Platform Security Processor Firmware – High Priority
- Design, implement, and validate platform security features.
- Develop and debug PSP firmware.
- Implement secure boot flows, key-management logic, and firmware authentication.
- Work across pre-silicon simulation/emulation and post-silicon bring-up environments.
- Apply knowledge of cryptography and libraries such as OpenSSL.
- Collaborate with hardware, BIOS/UEFI, and platform security teams.
- Understand security subsystems, security policies, root of trust, TPM/fTPM, and Widevine.
- Apply secure software development lifecycle, threat modelling, and CI/CD practices.
- Understand key provisioning and cryptographic acceleration.
B. Power Management Firmware
- Develop PMFW and DXIO firmware for AMD embedded platforms.
- Understand BIOS, power-management flows, and PCIe device initialisation.
- Work with UEFI BIOS and ACPI specifications.
- Understand C-states, P-states, and D-states.
- Work with power gating, clock gating, reset sequencing, and hot-plug flows.
- Support platform BIOS development and firmware bring-up.
- Design, develop, test, and review PMFW and DXIO features.
- Prepare low-level design documents and user guides.
- AGESA knowledge will be an advantage.
C. ABL/Memory Firmware
- Enable DDR4, DDR5, and NVDIMM technologies.
- Work with UDIMM, SODIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM, and LPDDR.
- Develop memory-recognition and configuration code.
- Debug using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and Lauterbach.
- Understand UMC, FCH, DF, MCLK, FCLK, and UCLK relationships.
- Understand ECC, SME, SEV, and RAS.
- Knowledge of vendor-specific memory implementations and timing differences is desirable.
D. BMC Firmware
- Develop BMC firmware for side-band and out-of-band server management.
- Hands-on OpenBMC stack development experience.
- Experience with Redfish and PLDM.
- Strong C programming and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of computer architecture.
- Experience with Git and Perforce.
- Knowledge of Python and Bash scripting.
- Experience with logic analysers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers.
