Asic Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Bangalore, India

Meta is seeking an ASIC Engineer, Firmware Specialist in Bangalore, India, to architect, design, build, and test embedded firmware systems for future ASIC platforms. The role involves defining architecture, implementing designs, and developing secure bootloaders, low-level device drivers, and RTOS-based platform firmware for data center chips. Responsibilities include technical leadership, firmware analysis, development, debugging, and supporting hardware development phases from silicon definition to chip bring-up. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience in embedded system development with C, experience in BootROM/bootloaders, complex SoC firmware, and RTOS environments, along with expertise in areas like SoC block understanding or board bring-up.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and develop secure bootloader for next-gen data center chips
  2. Lead the design and development of embedded software engineering activities and provide technical leadership and guidance to team members
  3. Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety of custom SoCs for data center solutions
  4. Be a go-to person to escalate the most complex development, performance and evaluation issues that require in-depth knowledge of product-focused firmware development
  5. Support all phases of hardware development – including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bring up and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems

Skills

Required

  • B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience in embedded system development, including programming in C for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
  • Experience in BootROM, bootloaders and secure boot development
  • Experience in platform firmware development for complex SoC's
  • Experience working with embedded hardware platforms and exposure to concepts such as clock-level issues, interrupts, and polling
  • Demonstrated expertise in developing with RTOS (preferably Zephyr) and embedded Linux
  • Experience leading complex features or projects across multiple teams
  • Demonstrated expertise in one or several of the following areas - SoC block understanding, board bring-up
  • Experience delivering end-to-end product solutions
  • Experience with lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at hardware level

Nice to have

  • Experience in Python or any other scripting language for tooling, test automation is a plus
  • Experience in peripheral drivers like PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • secure bootloader
  • firmware development
  • custom silicon
  • chip bring up