Lead Firmware Engineer; x86; Temporary

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The x86 firmware engineering team is responsible for enabling x86 AMD SOCs used in gaming, datacenter, embedded products, and consumer products. We are looking for a hands on Technical Lead (MTS) within the Platform Firmware Organization, responsible for end to end ownership and delivery of critical firmware.

This role is designed for an experienced developer who wants to lead through influence, technical depth, and execution, while remaining a strong individual contributor.

You will work closely with architects, program leadership, and cross functional engineering teams on all the aspects of firmware development – defining the scope, driving design and implementation, managing interdependencies, and ensuring successful delivery of firmware features and capabilities for AMD APUs and CPUs.

This role carries clear ownership for outcomes – quality, schedule, and technical direction, while mentoring and guiding other engineers to raise overall execution standards; this group is spread across a wide range of geographies with whom you will be collaborating on a day-to-day basis.

You are a technically strong, self-driven engineer who takes ownership and steps into leadership when ambiguity exists. You enjoy solving complex problems, driving alignment, and helping teams execute effectively. You lead by example –through high-quality design, clean code, strong communication, and consistent follow-through.

You have deep technical knowledge of firmware design and development methodologies, well-honed debug skills across multiple FW components and a collaborative can-do attitude to ensure timely enablement and delivery of critical x86 firmware components.

You are comfortable influencing without authority, balancing technical depth with pragmatism, and holding yourself and others accountable for delivery.

• Own the end to end delivery of firmware features or projects, from scoping and design through implementation, unit testing, validation, documentation, and release; drive architectural and design decisions, author and review design specifications and technical proposals.
• Act as the primary technical owner for assigned areas, ensuring correctness, robustness, and long term maintainability; debug and resolve complex, cross component issues in pre silicon and post silicon environments, by leveraging simulation and emulation tools.

• Lead by influence: drive alignment, set technical direction, and unblock execution across teams; set a high bar for engineering excellence, development discipline, and quality across the team.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day to day technical coaching.

• Partner with program managers, architects, validation, and other firmware teams to identify dependencies, risks, and execution gaps; proactively track progress, surface issues early, and drive them to closure, balancing short term delivery needs with long term technical health.
• Leverage a wide range of tools for source control, compilation and debugging, as well as AI-enhanced development and debugging techniques.

• Strong experience across the full firmware development lifecycle: design, implementation, debug, validation, and maintenance.
• Hands-on experience / proficient in C programming language, with knowledge of…