BIOS Firmware Development Engineer

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The Role

AMD is looking for an influential software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology. 

The Person

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across AMD.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and debug BIOS (System Software), UEFI Firmware, VBIOS or Memory Firmware for internal/external systems and platforms that use AMD APU/CPU, AMD chipset, and 3rd party chipsets.
• Customer orientation skills
• Strong cross component architectural skill, need to create customer presentable technical content
• Strong system debug skills
• Participant in day-to-day BIOS development / debugging work using PC assembly and C languages; will need to interact with internal organizations, BIOS vendors, and customers.
• Must have strong system debugging skills in various BIOS domains
• Comfortable working with PC hardware and platform issues
• Design BIOS features required by AMD APU/CPU and chipset.
• Develop BIOS features for AMD new platforms designed in house or externally; sustain existing BIOS; debug BIOS and system related issues.
• Assist APU/CPU validation, platform validation, and debug engineers to develop/debug system and silicon issues.
• Provide consultation to internal and external customers regarding AMD features and programming requirements.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• UEFI experience is required
• Debug and tuning is required
• Strong Knowledge about ACPI, USB, PCIE, SATA and other PC industry standard
• Good at X86 assembly and C language
• Familiar with at least one BIOS code base (AMI, Insyde or UDK open source).
• Familiar with DDR5, LPDDR5, GDDR6 Memory development a plus
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience in ARM development is a plus.
• Experience in BSP development/Boot loader (uBoot)/CoreBoot is a plus
• Experience in encryption / decryption firmware development is a plus.
• Experience in BIOS related tools development is a plus.
• Experience in Video BIOS development is a plus.
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  
  
  

LOCATION: Markham, Ontario Canada

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