Firmware Engineer at DensityAI
Mountain View, CA
$250,000–$370,000
Jul 25, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A firmware engineering role focused on AI accelerator hardware, covering the full platform firmware stack — from bootloaders and embedded controllers/BMC to secure boot, power sequencing, and telemetry. Day-to-day work includes building and maintaining secure boot chains, power management firmware, sensor/health monitoring, and debug infrastructure, alongside board bring-up and cross-functional collaboration with silicon and hardware teams. Suited to experienced embedded/firmware engineers comfortable at the hardware-software boundary.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $250,000–$370,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 80 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–120
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job title is not given in the posting; 'Unspecified' is used for advertised seniority. The 5+ years requirement and the scope (owning a full firmware stack, HW/SW co-design, post-silicon bring-up) support a Senior classification.
The California pay range ($250,000–$370,000/year) is stated as a California-specific figure; actual compensation may differ for other locations. The company (DensityAI) appears to be California-based but no specific city is named — Los Angeles metro is inferred as a plausible California AI-company location; the actual CBSA may differ.
UEFI and coreboot are listed together as a single optional item in the posting; they are captured as one skill with coreboot as an alternative since they serve the same bootloader role.
The optional section also mentions 'accelerator/GPU/server firmware', 'applied crypto & key management', 'side-channel/fault-injection awareness', and 'SBOM/supply-chain security' — these are domain areas rather than named tools or technologies, so they are omitted per extraction rules.
Export control (EAR/ITAR) is flagged in the posting but no formal US security clearance is required or gated on.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): NIST SP 800-193.
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