Senior Principal Engineer - FW/SW Development (AI Infrastructure)

Location: San Jose, California, United States; other location: California. Onsite role.

Salary: $180,000–$250,000 annually, depending on experience, level, and business need. May also include discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and its COSMOS software suite, integrating CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink technologies.

What you will do

• Architect and develop production-quality embedded firmware for connectivity ASICs, including boot code, initialization sequences, and runtime firmware.
• Design host-side software, drivers, SDK components, diagnostic tools, manufacturing software, and customer-facing utilities.
• Define hardware-firmware interfaces and co-design features with ASIC design and verification teams.
• Establish firmware/software development processes, coding standards, CI/CD practices, and engineering best practices.
• Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across multiple product lines and generations.
• Drive innovation in firmware updates, telemetry, RAS features, manageability frameworks, and next-generation product strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in firmware and/or software development for semiconductor or systems companies.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++ for embedded and systems-level programming.
• Experience developing firmware for ARM-based SoCs or custom ASIC platforms.
• Deep understanding of hardware-software interfaces, register programming, and low-level debugging techniques.
• Experience with high-speed interconnect protocols such as PCIe, CXL, or Ethernet at the firmware or driver level.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with RTOS-based and bare-metal firmware development.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and test development.
• Familiarity with Linux kernel development, device drivers, or platform firmware such as UEFI/BIOS.
• Experience leading firmware/software efforts from architecture through production across multiple product generations.
• Experience in data center, AI/ML infrastructure, or high-performance computing domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role with broad technical ownership across firmware, software, hardware, and systems engineering.
• Opportunity to collaborate with ASIC design, verification, applications, and field engineering teams.
• Role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits.
• hirify.global encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.