Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer (AI)

Location: San Jose, on-site. The role is part of a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row). Relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Company

hirify.global builds AI inference hardware by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for high throughput and low latency.

What you will do

• Develop and own low-level C/C++ validation firmware for emulation, FPGA prototypes, and physical silicon.
• Drive first-silicon bring-up, including boot, initialization, feature enablement, and ASIC debugging.
• Debug and root-cause issues across firmware, RTL, electrical, protocol, and system layers.
• Build HALs and low-level device drivers for compute units, memory subsystems, and high-speed interfaces.
• Develop validation automation, result capture, regression frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Create firmware-driven test plans and coverage metrics, and perform functional, performance, stress, and corner-case testing.

Requirements

• Proficiency in C/C++ for firmware and bare-metal development, plus Python for automation and scripting.
• Understanding of SoC and computer architecture, including CPU cores, memory subsystems, caches, and interconnects.
• Experience with bootloaders, HALs, device drivers, register and interrupt programming, and bare-metal or RTOS environments.
• Knowledge of Linux development and strong analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Ability to work on-site in San Jose.

Nice to have

• 2+ years of firmware or embedded software development for ASICs or SoCs.
• Silicon bring-up, JTAG, Lauterbach or GDB, UART consoles, and lab instrumentation experience.
• Experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon validation, high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR/LPDDR/HBM, SerDes, or chiplet interconnects.
• RTOS or RISC-V firmware development, platform firmware, RTL simulation, and Verilog/SystemVerilog debugging.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
• $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,000 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moves to San Jose, wellness benefits, and daily lunch and dinner in the office.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.
• Engineering and research work across disciplines in a fully in-person environment.