Senior Firmware Engineer

🔐 Security Firmware Engineer – Embedded / Root of Trust

We’re looking for a Security Firmware Engineer to joined an AI hardware company building a next-generation in-memory compute platform designed to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference at the edge.

Backed by $120M+ in funding and founded on over a decade of advanced research, they are developing a PCIe-based accelerator to power low-latency, scalable AI across edge and distributed systems.

🔧 The Role

This is a hands-on firmware position focused on implementing secure boot and root-of-trust across a complex SoC. You’ll take ownership of integrating the chain of trust across boot stages and enabling secure firmware delivery.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Implement chain-of-trust across bootloaders and runtime firmware
• Integrate security IP into the firmware stack
• Enable signing, encryption, and validation flows
• Support FPGA and early silicon bring-up

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years embedded firmware experience
• Strong C/C++ skills
• Experience with secure boot / root-of-trust
• Comfortable working close to hardware and debugging low-level systems

➕ Nice to have: RISC-V/ARM, PCIe firmware, security IP integration

Location: Remote from anywhere in US/Canada

Salary: upto $260k+ equity and wider benefits