Principal RAS and Fault Monitoring Firmware Engineer

Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications. Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!

Ampere Computing is growing, and we’re seeking a dynamic RAS & Fault Monitoring Firmware Engineer to help ensure our SOC platforms deliver reliable, production-grade behavior. You’ll work across the full firmware lifecycle for Ampere’s SOC products—partnering closely with internal cross-functional teams, external partners and customers, and the open-source community. In this role, you’ll build and validate firmware capabilities for resilience, fault containment, observability, and automated recovery.

• Develop and deliver firmware across the stack, from Ampere’s proprietary low-level firmware through mid-level implementations (e.g., EDK2), and up to kernel drivers and test applications.
• Design and implement RAS and Fault Monitoring features including telemetry, fault classification, error injection support, and recovery/mitigation flows.
• Collaborate with Ampere hardware and software architects to influence SOC and firmware design choices and ensure firmware mechanisms align with system requirements.
• Bring up pre-silicon software support on HW emulation and bring-up environments to validate RAS and Fault Monitoring early.
• Own bug triage to resolution: debug, root cause, and fix software issues spanning multiple subsystems (firmware/OS), and drive sustainable fixes upstream.
• Support multiple platforms and programs, working with internal teams and external customers to ensure consistent feature quality and behavior.
• Partner with ODMs and ecosystem stakeholders to implement firmware features on SoC reference platforms and ensure integration readiness.
• Work with Field Application Engineers (FAEs) to reproduce customer-reported issues, validate fixes, and improve overall product reliability.

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field & 8 years of related experience; or Masters degree & 6 years
• Experience in RAS and Fault Monitoring, including: SOC fault monitoring / platform fault monitoring Minimum Risk Maneuvers (MRM) Software Test Libraries (STLs) and fault/robustness testing
• Minimum 6 years of experience designing, writing, and testing firmware.
• Strong experience in multi-threaded programming and concurrency-aware design.
• Demonstrated ability coding in
  
  C.
• Experience with assembly and direct hardware access.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and testing skills, with the ability to resolve issues spanning firmware and OS boundaries.
• Proven track record of driving features from requirements through delivery and validation.
• In-depth knowledge of software development methodologies that produce maintainable, sustainable code.
• Experience with SCM and CI/CD tooling, such as:
  Git, Jenkins, and issue/defect tracking tools (e.g., Bugzilla and JIRA).

At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $182,000 and $273,000, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $195,000 and $292,000. Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.

• Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future.
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