Firmware Architect

🕒 July 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏛️ Architect

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TYLsemi

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2026

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

Hardware • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

TYLsemi is a chiplet-first silicon company focused on AI infrastructure solutions. It provides production-ready, validated chiplets and a unified platform to take designs from architecture to deployed silicon, enabling faster, lower-risk development of AI systems. TYLsemi's offerings (branded TYL. IO, TYL. Power, TYL. Forge) target critical AI infrastructure functions—XPUs, switches, connectivity, power, and system scaling—and it also offers chiplet-enabled custom silicon, packaging, and manufacturing integration. The company promotes up to ~50% faster development and reduced costs, and recently raised $43M in an oversubscribed early-stage funding round.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end firmware/embedded-software architecture for TYLsemi chiplets • Define the firmware/hardware interface together with the Chip Architects for a seamless HW-to-SW handoff • On-die boot and secure boot, link sequencing, PCIe/CXL controller configuration • Define a unified flow for firmware development and DV test cases • Drive pre-silicon firmware and host-software development on emulation and virtual platforms • Stand up the firmware engineering infrastructure • Be the technical bridge between firmware/software and architecture • Set technical direction, roadmap, and clear subsystem ownership

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS in Electrical / Computer Engineering or Computer Science • 12+ years of embedded firmware development, with at least 5 years in silicon-level bring-up and validation of high-speed interface IPs • Working knowledge of design verification (DV) and HW/SW co-simulation / co-verification flows • Expert-level C and assembly for resource-constrained embedded CPUs (RISC-V or Arm Cortex-M/R class) • Strong debugging skills using JTAG/OpenOCD, trace, and logic analysers • Deep PCIe expertise • Hands-on experience with HPC compute SoC firmware ecosystems • Solid understanding of x86 server platform boot flow • Experience with secure-boot architectures, code-signing flows, and OTA update mechanisms on embedded targets

🏖️ Benefits

• No Politics, No Bureaucracy • Remote-Friendly, Global Team • Move Fast, Ship Real Products