Lead Firmware Software Engineer in Multimedia / Camera

Job Summary

Lead Firmware Software engineer in Multimedia / Camera

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 researching alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work.
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners.

Preferred Experience

• 14+ years of embedded software or firmware development experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in Embedded C and real-time embedded systems with the 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.

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