Senior Firmware Engineer - Security

Company Description

Axiado is building the future of AI powered digital infrastructure. We are a fast-growing, well funded silicon, systems, and solutions company pioneering a new category of semiconductor called the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) that combines advanced hardware security, AI driven resilience and efficiency, and real-time platform management. Our technology protects the world’s most critical infrastructure—from data centers to next generation cloud and AI platforms—by securing systems at the foundation levels of hardware, independent of host CPUs and operating systems. 

Founded in 2019 and now over 150 employees are strong, Axiado has evolved into a recognized leader in the convergence of AI, security, and silicon innovation. We partner with and are actively engaged in commercial programs with multiple Tier 1 industry leaders, validating both our technology and our long-term market trajectory. Axiado has also won numerous industry awards for our ground-breaking products and technological innovations, including being named one of Fast Company’s 2025 Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Security, winning the 2025 Global InfoSec Award for Outstanding AI Security Solution, and being named a finalist for the Global Semiconductor Alliance’s 2025 “Start-Up to Watch” award. 

At Axiado, developing breakthrough technology takes more than great engineering—it takes a team of exceptional people who collaborate boldly, challenge assumptions, and take pride in building what comes next. We value curiosity, execution, respect, and a shared desire to make a meaningful impact on the security and reliability of the digital world. 

If you’re driven to innovate, energized by hard problems, and excited to help define the future of secure AI infrastructure, we invite you to apply and join us on this journey. 

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer to join our System Manager team.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to work alongside a high-performing engineering team on cutting-edge technologies that enable secure root of trust functionality. You will contribute to the design, development, integration, and validation of low-level platform firmware responsible for system management, secure boot, platform security, device management, and recovery functionality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 6–10 years of experience in Embedded Firmware/Software development.

• Strong proficiency in Embedded C, data structures, and low-level programming.
• Strong hands-on experience with any RTOS, with FreeRTOS experience preferred.
• Good understanding of ARM-based SoCs, multicore architecture.
• Experience developing/debugging low-level drivers.
• Strong system-level debugging skills using JTAG, logs, crash/exception analysis.
• Familiar with Git, code reviews, unit testing, static analysis, and CI/CD.
• Ability to independently own features from requirements and design through implementation, integration, validation, and release.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with all other stake holders

Additional Information

• Experience with SPDM, PLDM, MCTP protocols
• Experience with Caliptra, Crypto/security APIs
• Experience with bootloaders and platform firmware, including initialization, boot flows, reset handling, recovery, and firmware-update mechanisms.
• Understanding of firmware authentication/signature verification, OTP provisioning

• Department: Software