2026 Masters Firmware Engineering Intern/Co-op

AMD is a company dedicated to building innovative products that enhance next-generation computing experiences. The Firmware Engineering intern/co-op will work on the design, development, and delivery of firmware for AMD’s products, gaining valuable real-world experience and contributing to significant projects.

Responsibilities

• Craft, implement, debug, and validate features on reference hardware and software, pre-silicon emulation and simulation environments supporting AMD products
• Actively participate in design reviews, code reviews and project planning
• Build and complete clear documentation for all software produced
• Work on both internal and external platforms
• Learn and apply AGILE methodologies and standard processes for Software Engineering
• Engage in x86 firmware development using C
• Design, build and implement Embedded Firmware + Bootrom/HW
• Debug issues at the boundary of FW and HW
• Involve 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

• AMD benefits at a glance.

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