Senior Firmware Verification Engineer
📌San Jose, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Overview
As a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer at Astera Labs, you will be responsible for verifying the firmware and microcontroller subsystems for Astera Labs’ SoC and system products. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the quality and reliability of firmware by using both white-box and black-box testing methodologies. You will work closely with the firmware development team to build and execute test cases for specific components, identify bugs, and verify the overall implementation. This role will focus on validating firmware for high-speed interfaces in data center, server, and networking applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute test plans for firmware verification using white-box testing methodologies at the component level (e.g., PCIe, UART, SPI).
- Review code, identify bugs, and thoroughly test various firmware levels, including PHY, PCIe, and security features.
- Collaborate with the development team to ensure proper verification of hardware-software (HW-SW) interfaces on complex SoCs.
- Create automated test scripts using Python and manage test environments to ensure efficiency and accuracy in testing.
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Work with system-level validation and QA teams to ensure comprehensive testing of the entire product lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (Master's preferred).
- +5 years of experience in firmware verification or development for SoC/silicon products.
- Proficiency in C and Python programming with experience in developing component-level test cases for firmware verification.
- Strong understanding of white-box testing methodologies, with experience in testing lower-level firmware components.
- Hands-on experience with server, storage, and/or networking equipment (e.g., PCIe/Ethernet Switches).
- Familiarity with high-speed interfaces and IP blocks such as PCIe Controllers, DDR Controllers, NVMe, AMBA/AHB interfaces, and on-chip memory.
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Experience working in software/firmware build environments (gcc/Make, GitHub) and test automation tools like Python.
- Experience developing or testing embedded firmware for high-speed interface products (e.g., PCIe, Ethernet).
- Familiarity with industry standards such as NIST, Open Compute Project, and DMTF.
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Knowledge of secure software, including cryptography, authentication, and common software vulnerabilities.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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