System Firmware Technical Engineer (1 yr contract)
HybridMarkham, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead firmware architecture and operations for the Discrete GPU Platform, acting as the primary Point of Contact for SOC programs and cross-organizational meetings. Drive technical discussions, coordinate debug efforts for critical severity defects, and manage engagements with Kicker SKUs and Customer Engineering teams. Review new requirement requests post-program plan exit and influence architecture decisions across large engineering organizations. Requires strong technical leadership in software, firmware, and SoC design, with expertise in embedded systems, power management, and virtualization technologies like SR-IOV. This 1-year contract role is based in Markham, ON, with a hybrid schedule.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience across software, firmware, and hardware development lifecycles, from architecture and design through validation and product delivery
- Strong technical leadership and architectural expertise in software, firmware, System-on-Chip (SoC), and Intellectual Property (IP) design
- Deep understanding of embedded systems, platform architecture, and complex system integration
- Experience defining and implementing secure platform architectures with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Strong knowledge of power management, memory architecture, subsystem optimization, and performance tuning
- Proficiency with low-level hardware interfaces, communication protocols, and firmware-hardware interactions
- Experience with virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV and related resource partitioning and isolation frameworks
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives, drive issue resolution, and influence architecture decisions across large engineering organizations
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