The Silicon and Systems Group (SSG) is seeking an Embedded Software Development Manager to help lead our Product BSP team. This role spans two distinct charters. The first is ownership of the embedded security coprocessor firmware and tooling across the full silicon lifecycle, from architecture through tapeout, factory provisioning, and field deployment. The second is ownership of shipped-product software, including field metrics and issue resolution, new BSP feature development, and long-term platform maintenance across multiple generations of custom silicon.
You will lead a geographically distributed team of embedded software engineers. On the security coprocessor side, your team owns OTP provisioning, manufacturing firmware, boot ROM, and the associated security tooling infrastructure that ships in every device. On the shipped-product side, your team owns field metrics and crash monitoring for deployed devices, new BSP software capabilities, and ongoing maintenance including kernel CVE remediation, platform uplevels, and graphics stack updates. Together, these charters ensure our custom silicon products are secure from first boot through their full market lifecycle.
This role requires deep technical expertise in embedded systems, hardware-software co-design, and production firmware combined with proven people-management experience leading distributed teams in a fast-paced silicon development environment. You will drive execution against product ship milestones, own one-way-door decisions for OTP fuse programming and boot ROM changes, and coordinate with partner security organizations, OS platform teams, and factory manufacturing partners.
Key job responsibilities
People Leadership
Lead and grow a geographically distributed team of embedded software engineers across the US and India. Hire and develop talent with deep expertise in firmware, kernel development, and production systems. Set clear goals aligned to product ship milestones and post-launch sustaining commitments. Serve as the escalation point for cross-functional technical decisions spanning security, field quality, and software maintenance.
Embedded Security Coprocessor (OTP, Manufacturing Firmware, Security Tooling)
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of the embedded security coprocessor firmware stack spanning OTP provisioning, manufacturing firmware, boot ROM, and associated security tooling. Drive execution of irreversible hardware security decisions including OTP fuse programming, secure boot key enrollment, and ROM patch deployment. Coordinate with factory manufacturing partners on secure provisioning flows including HSM integration, key injection, and production line OTP programming. Own security tooling infrastructure including build pipelines, code signing, secure debug authentication mechanisms, and virtual platform validation.
Field Metrics and Field Issues
Own field metrics strategy and execution for deployed devices, including kernel-to-cloud telemetry pipelines, crash monitoring (MTBF, kernel panics, silent reboots), and BSP performance metrics across display, codec, graphics, audio, and camera subsystems. Triage and prioritize field issues escalated from production devices on beta and public OTA groups. Drive root cause analysis for hardware-software interaction failures observed only at scale, coordinating across BSP, platform, and product teams. Establish proactive monitoring that identifies degradations before they impact customer experience.
Software Features and Maintenance on Shipped Products
Own BSP software feature development and long-term maintenance for all shipped silicon products. Drive new platform capabilities that enhance product functionality post-launch, while simultaneously managing kernel CVE remediation, Yocto platform uplevels (LTS kernel migrations), Mesa/GPU driver updates, and middleware security patches. Drive the prioritization and execution of security vulnerability response across multiple SoC platforms simultaneously, balancing ship timelines against security risk. Own the process for delivering new BSP features and upleveling critical software components (kernel, graphics stack, multimedia frameworks) on shipped products without regressions, coordinating regression testing campaigns with SQA and partner teams.
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
- Experience with any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, or experience managing teams
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience with hardware security concepts including secure boot, hardware root of trust, cryptographic key management, or Trusted Execution Environments (TEE)
- Experience with DRM content protection systems (e.g., Widevine, PlayReady, HDCP) or similar content security frameworks
- Experience driving security reviews, threat modeling, or penetration testing for embedded or hardware platforms
- Experience with factory security processes such as secure provisioning, key injection, HSM integration, or OTP fuse programming
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