2026 Masters Firmware Engineering Intern/Co-op

AMD is a leading company focused on building innovative products that enhance computing experiences across various domains. They are seeking a Firmware Engineering intern/co-op to support the design, development, and delivery of firmware for their products, while gaining valuable real-world experience in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• We will assign you responsibilities to craft, implement, debug, and validate features on reference hardware and software, pre-silicon emulation and simulation environments supporting AMD products
• We will encourage to actively participate in design reviews, code reviews and project planning
• We will train you to build and complete clear documentation for all software produced
• We will provide opportunity to work on both internal and external platforms
• We will help you learn and apply AGILE methodologies and standard processes for Software Engineering
• You may be involved in one or more (but not limited to) of the following work -
• Engage in x86 firmware development using C
• Design, Build and Implementation of Embedded Firmware + Bootrom/HW
• Debug issues at the boundary of FW and HW. We will have your involvement in Waveform level analysis to root cause FW/HW issues

Skills

• You are currently enrolled in a US based University in a Masters degree program majoring in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Low level BIOS, firmware, or system software development
• Low level programming language C/C++ and knowledge of hardware architectures
• Embedded system, RTOS, and embedded controller structure
• Source control, debuggers, compilers and system wide debugging from software to firmware to hardware
• Opensource concepts
• VHDL/Verilog/FPGA and general hardware design concepts and process
• Linux development environments
• Architectural understanding and/or experience of graphics/compute pipelines
• Perforce, JIRA, Git, or similar tools

Benefits

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