Mid Level Firmware Jobs
Mid level firmware jobs go to engineers ready to own features end to end, drive architecture decisions with limited oversight, and mentor junior teammates. Roles run across Electronics & Hardware, Technology & Software, and Manufacturing, with a mix of on-site, hybrid, and remote settings, and employers like Apcon, Amazon, and SharkNinja hiring at this level now.
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Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.
People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.
Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.
Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!
Job Description:
Join the Firmware Engineering team as a Senior Engineer I-Firmware supporting complex embedded firmware architecture, development, integration, verification, debugging, release, and lifecycle challenges. This role is best suited for candidates with 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in embedded firmware, device drivers, real-time systems, middleware, hardware/software integration, or a closely related engineering area.
In this role, you will own complex individual-contributor assignments and coordinate technical investigations and reviews, partner with hardware, systems, software, validation, applications, product, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams, and help deliver robust functionality, integration readiness, product quality, and lifecycle support.
As a Senior Engineer I-Firmware in Microchip’s Datacenter Solutions business unit, you will be working on products that deploy leading edge technologies such as CXL, NVMe, DDR, PCIe, SAS, and RAID. These products are developed and designed for our cloud hyper-scaler, Tier 1, and OEM customers that build and create the communication infrastructure for the connected world we live in.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute complex embedded firmware designs, components, drivers, services, middleware, interfaces, and verification approaches.
- Translate complex product, system, hardware, and software requirements into firmware architecture elements and implementation plans within approved scope.
- Analyze code, interfaces, timing, memory, power, performance, reliability, security, defects, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
- Lead complex debugging and root-cause investigations within assigned scope; coordinate corrective actions and closure.
- Review specifications, designs, code, test plans, results, defects, and release evidence for technical quality.
- Drive automation, reuse, build, integration, regression, and development-process improvements.
- Coordinate complex deliverables and technical reviews across hardware, systems, software, validation, applications, product, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- Mentor peers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing without implied people-management authority.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in embedded firmware, device drivers, boot software, real-time systems, middleware, communications, hardware/software integration, firmware testing and debugging, semiconductor or related product development, or closely related equivalent experience.
Qualified candidates should demonstrate analytical thinking, embedded-software problem solving, structured debugging, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, evidence-based communication, cross-functional collaboration, quality focus, and the ability to work with complex hardware, software, firmware, system, and product information.
Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate:
- Employment stability, reliability, and sustained accountability in prior roles.
- Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
- Integrity and accuracy in representing qualifications, experience, and credentials.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with embedded firmware, device drivers, boot software, real-time systems, middleware, communications, or hardware/software integration.
- Experience with firmware development flows, debugging, version control, build systems, testing, scripting, automation, or continuous integration.
- Experience resolving performance, timing, memory, power, reliability, security, integration, or field issues.
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Knowledge of Agile development process.
- Knowledge of high speed serial protocols such as PCIe and/or SAS/SATA.
- Experience with RISC/MIPS architectures, ThreadX RTOS and SoC peripheral protocols.
Travel Time:
0% - 25%Physical Attributes:
Feeling, Handling, Hearing, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around OthersPhysical Requirements:
10% Standing, 10% Walking, 80% Sitting, 100% Inside-MF 8-5PM
Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.
To all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. Microchip is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.
People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.
Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.
Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!
Job Description:
Join the Firmware Engineering team as a Senior Engineer I-Firmware supporting complex embedded firmware architecture, development, integration, verification, debugging, release, and lifecycle challenges. This role is best suited for candidates with 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in embedded firmware, device drivers, real-time systems, middleware, hardware/software integration, or a closely related engineering area.
In this role, you will own complex individual-contributor assignments and coordinate technical investigations and reviews, partner with hardware, systems, software, validation, applications, product, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams, and help deliver robust functionality, integration readiness, product quality, and lifecycle support.
As a Senior Engineer I-Firmware in Microchip’s Datacenter Solutions business unit, you will be working on products that deploy leading edge technologies such as CXL, NVMe, DDR, PCIe, SAS, and RAID. These products are developed and designed for our cloud hyper-scaler, Tier 1, and OEM customers that build and create the communication infrastructure for the connected world we live in.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute complex embedded firmware designs, components, drivers, services, middleware, interfaces, and verification approaches.
- Translate complex product, system, hardware, and software requirements into firmware architecture elements and implementation plans within approved scope.
- Analyze code, interfaces, timing, memory, power, performance, reliability, security, defects, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
- Lead complex debugging and root-cause investigations within assigned scope; coordinate corrective actions and closure.
- Review specifications, designs, code, test plans, results, defects, and release evidence for technical quality.
- Drive automation, reuse, build, integration, regression, and development-process improvements.
- Coordinate complex deliverables and technical reviews across hardware, systems, software, validation, applications, product, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- Mentor peers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing without implied people-management authority.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in embedded firmware, device drivers, boot software, real-time systems, middleware, communications, hardware/software integration, firmware testing and debugging, semiconductor or related product development, or closely related equivalent experience.
Qualified candidates should demonstrate analytical thinking, embedded-software problem solving, structured debugging, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, evidence-based communication, cross-functional collaboration, quality focus, and the ability to work with complex hardware, software, firmware, system, and product information.
Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate:
- Employment stability, reliability, and sustained accountability in prior roles.
- Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
- Integrity and accuracy in representing qualifications, experience, and credentials.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with embedded firmware, device drivers, boot software, real-time systems, middleware, communications, or hardware/software integration.
- Experience with firmware development flows, debugging, version control, build systems, testing, scripting, automation, or continuous integration.
- Experience resolving performance, timing, memory, power, reliability, security, integration, or field issues.
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Knowledge of Agile development process.
- Knowledge of high speed serial protocols such as PCIe and/or SAS/SATA.
- Experience with RISC/MIPS architectures, ThreadX RTOS and SoC peripheral protocols.
Travel Time:
0% - 25%Physical Attributes:
Feeling, Handling, Hearing, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around OthersPhysical Requirements:
10% Standing, 10% Walking, 80% Sitting, 100% Inside-MF 8-5PM
Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.
To all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. Microchip is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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Mid Level Firmware Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level firmware job?
Position your experience around ownership, not just contribution. Highlight specific firmware subsystems or features you led from design through integration, any debugging wins on embedded hardware, and decisions you made independently. Tailor your resume to the target platform and toolchain, since hiring managers at this level screen for hands-on depth in areas like RTOS, peripheral drivers, or bootloader development, not just general embedded exposure.
Which companies hire mid level firmwares?
Companies hiring mid level firmwares right now include Apcon, Amazon, and SharkNinja, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a mix of consumer electronics brands, defense and aerospace contractors, medical device makers, and industrial automation firms, each looking for engineers who can own a functional area with minimal hand-holding.
Are there remote mid level firmware jobs?
Yes, though firmware roles skew more on-site than many software disciplines because of hardware access requirements. About 11% of mid level firmware openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with hybrid arrangements most common at companies that need periodic lab or bench time. Fully remote roles do exist, typically at organizations with distributed embedded teams and established remote debugging workflows.
How do I move up to a mid level firmware role?
Growth into mid level firmware comes from accumulating real ownership over your early career. That means moving beyond ticket-level tasks to driving a full feature or subsystem, building comfort with hardware bring-up, writing production-quality drivers, and contributing to code reviews. Demonstrable impact, such as cutting boot time, resolving a critical hardware bug, or shipping a peripheral integration, signals readiness for the independence mid level roles require.
Which industries hire the most mid level firmwares?
Mid level firmware roles concentrate in Electronics & Hardware, Technology & Software, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they ship hardware products on tight cycles and need engineers who can own embedded subsystems without constant senior supervision, making mid level firmware one of the more consistently in-demand specializations in embedded engineering.