Firmware Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a talented and experienced firmware lead engineer to architect, develop, and bring up embedded firmware for advanced digital integrated circuits. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions that meet customer requirements and industry standards. The ideal candidate combines deep embedded firmware expertise with the ability to mentor engineers, review designs, coordinate cross-functional work, and ensure consistent, high-quality firmware delivery across all system components.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the definition, implementation, and evolution of firmware that orchestrates GPU execution, scheduling, context management, and system-level control
• Collaborate closely with architecture, RTL design, Verification, Validation and systems software teams to drive firmware requirements and interfaces
• Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware, boot software, and device drivers for high-speed silicon, memory, interconnect, and power/thermal subsystems
• Drive root-cause analysis across lab bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, and field-return scenarios
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, and debug support
• Collaborate with cross-geo teams and drive program execution and deliver products

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in low-level microcontroller firmware development
• Deep understanding of interrupt schemes, multi-threading, DMA, memory management, and working in resource-restricted embedded environments
• Solid understanding of low-level software, device drivers, hardware interfaces, and system bring-up
• Proven track record of leading complex projects from concept to completion
• Experience with platform initialization, low-level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, UARTs, GPIO as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading

Nice to have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Experience with custom ASIC or SoC pre-silicon verification and post-silicon bring-up
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and prepare for customer/vendor meetings in advance, and to work with minimal guidance and supervision
• Proven track record of leading complex projects from concept to completion
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and effectively collaborate within cross-functional global teams

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision - 100% covered premiums
• Equity - Stock Options
• 401(k) match
• WFH Hardware

About the Company

Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup building the fastest and most efficient graphics processors. They pride themselves on their first principles approach to solving problems and are energized by their mission to reduce the barrier of entry for content creation and consumption. Their goal is to enable everyone to easily create, simulate and consume immersive experiences as vividly as they can imagine them.