Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer – AI/HPC Networking Silicon

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Cornelis Networks

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $29M Series B on 2022-11

Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Enterprise

Cornelis Networks is a leading provider of intelligent, scalable, high-performance interconnects designed for AI applications. The company specializes in delivering end-to-end purpose-built high-performance fabrics to commercial, scientific, academic, and government organizations. Cornelis Networks’ solutions are aimed at enhancing performance, scalability, and efficiency across hyperscale, cloud AI, and on-premises AI/HPC environments. Their offerings are known for scalable architecture, high bandwidth solutions, and universal compatibility with accelerators and GPUs. Originating as an Intel spin-off, the company is positioned to challenge existing technologies like InfiniBand and Ethernet, providing advanced interconnects that power modern AI infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Architect and implement bare-metal C firmware on a RISC-V management core • Provision, boot, and supervise arrays of on-chip acceleration engines • Own the secure firmware-loading pipeline, including flash image retrieval, hardware root-of-trust authentication, and verified image distribution through on-chip fan-out/DMA hardware • Build per-engine bring-up, reset sequencing, and health validation using control/status registers • Implement timeout and error handling and enforce security invariants • Scale firmware distribution and bring-up across many engines and multiple dies • Support runtime reboot and in-field firmware updates • Define hardware/software contracts with ASIC/RTL teams using a datamodel-first workflow • Validate firmware with functional simulators such as QEMU and automated unit/integration tests • Set architecture standards, review designs and code, and mentor engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of embedded/firmware engineering experience • Track record of software architecture and technical leadership • Expert C; C++ is a plus • Working Python • Deep experience with bare-metal firmware on constrained cores • Experience with manually managed local memories and low-level bring-up • Experience with secure boot/image authentication and hardware root-of-trust integration • Experience programming hardware CSRs and co-designing register-level interfaces with silicon teams • Hands-on AI-assisted engineering proficiency and ability to validate AI-generated output • RISC-V firmware and toolchain experience preferred • Firmware orchestration for multi-core accelerator arrays preferred • Hardware root-of-trust ecosystems, such as Caliptra, and SHA-2/signature verification preferred • Code-generation toolchains such as SystemRDL, Kaitai, and CMake, plus simulator-based co-verification preferred • Familiarity with Ultra Ethernet (UEC), UALink, and ESUN preferred • Background in HPC/AI networking, RDMA, or libfabric preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity, cash, and performance-based incentives • Health, medical, dental, and vision coverage • Disability and life insurance • Dependent care flexible spending account • Accidental injury insurance • Pet insurance • Generous paid holidays • 401(k) with company match • Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees • Sick time • Bonding leave • Pregnancy disability leave • Flexible remote work environment