What are the responsibilities and job description for the Firmware Engineer position at Acceler8 Talent?
🚀 Firmware Engineer – AI Hardware 🚀
📍 San Jose, CA (Onsite) | 💰 Competitive equity
We’re working with a well-funded AI hardware startup building next-gen infrastructure for transformer models - replacing GPUs with purpose-built systems delivering major gains in performance, cost, and latency.
They’re hiring engineers to work across the stack and unlock the full potential of large-scale AI systems.
🔧 What you’ll do:
• Build high-performance software across the stack (firmware → frameworks)
• Optimise systems tightly coupled with custom hardware
• Work on cutting-edge AI applications (NLP, generative media, reasoning)
• Solve complex systems challenges at scale
✅ What they want:
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with systems, firmware, or embedded architectures
• Familiarity with IO tech (PCIe, DRAM, SPI, I2C)
• Track record of shipping production systems
💡 Why join?
• Backed by top-tier investors, heavily funded
• Opportunity to redefine AI infrastructure beyond GPUs
• High ownership across engineering research
If you’re interested in AI systems hardware, drop me a message.
Salary : $150,000 - $275,000