Micron
Principal Firmware Developer, HBM
$181K–$308K
Richardson, TX · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant Engineering or Design Engineering experience.
- Education
- BSEE or greater.
About the job
Leads development, validation, and lifecycle support of firmware and embedded software for next-generation Custom HBM products and SoCs.
What you'll do
- Analyze firmware, design, and customer requirements and plan implementations; deliver firmware for drivers, verification, manufacturing/testing, and production.
- Use FPGA prototyping and collaborate with architecture, design, and verification teams to validate and co-optimize firmware, RTL, hardware, and IP.
- Provide technical leadership from architecture through silicon bring-up, qualification, customer enablement, and product sustainment.
What they ask for
- Strong embedded-systems or firmware development experience, including low-level programming and system control.
- Ability to architect complex firmware systems and interfaces for GPUs/CPUs/TPUs in large-scale AI datacenter environments.
- Memory-technology background and hands-on experience with low-level firmware, hardware bring-up, and silicon debug.
- BSEE or greater.
Nice to have
- Exposure to RAS, diagnostics, telemetry, testing, reliability-focused firmware, high-speed interfaces, or SoC firmware integration.
- Understanding of DRAM operation and JEDEC standards, preferably HBM; exposure to AI/ML workloads or datacenter-scale memory systems.
Pay
$181,000.00 - $308,000.00 USD a year (base salary)
Tools
HBM, SoC, FPGA, RTL, DRAM, JEDEC
AI focus
Use GenAI to develop AI-assisted development workflows; proficiency applying AI and AI-enabled development workflows is required.
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