ASIC Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist

Job Title

ASIC Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist

Role Summary

The role architects, implements, and validates low-level embedded firmware for data-center ASIC platforms, covering BootROM through device drivers and RTOS-based firmware. The position partners with silicon architects, hardware designers, OS and algorithm teams to enable chip bring-up and production-ready platform firmware.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 8+ years of relevant embedded systems and firmware development experience.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include firmware design, chip bring-up support, and technical leadership for platform firmware projects.

• Design and develop secure bootloader and BootROM for next-generation data-center ASICs.
• Lead embedded software engineering tasks and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for custom SoCs across development and validation phases.
• Serve as escalation point for complex development, performance, and evaluation issues.
• Support hardware development phases: architecture requirements, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, and chip bring-up.
• Collaborate with silicon architects, hardware designers, OS and algorithm teams to define and execute long-term firmware roadmaps.
• Implement power management, boot flow, scheduling, inter-processor communication, and firmware/system interfaces on RTOS or bare-metal platforms.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

• 8+ years of embedded systems development experience, including programming in C for development, debugging, testing, and performance analysis.
• Proven experience with BootROM, bootloaders, and secure boot development.
• Experience developing platform firmware for complex SoCs.
• Hands-on experience with embedded hardware platforms and low-level hardware concepts (clock-level issues, interrupts, polling).

Nice-to-have:

• Experience delivering end-to-end product solutions and leading cross-team features or projects.
• Familiarity with lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers) for hardware-level debugging.
• SoC block understanding and board bring-up experience.
• Scripting skills (Python or similar) for tooling and test automation.
• Experience with RTOS (preferably Zephyr) and embedded Linux.
• Experience developing peripheral drivers (PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI).

Education Requirements

B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Meta Platforms

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

American technology company that develops social networking products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and invests in virtual/augmented reality hardware and software through Reality Labs, focusing on connectivity, advertising, and immersive computing experiences.