4 firmware intern jobs at 4 companies in Salinas, CA

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Firmware Intern [Fall 2026]
San Jose, California, United States
$40-$45/hr OnsiteFull Time, Internship
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Figure: Develops autonomous humanoid robots for commercial and residential tasks.
Undergraduate senior or recent graduate in Computer Engineering/Computer Science; 10+ week internship; fluent in C, C++, Python; experience on bare-metal systems and RTOS; knowledge of computer architecture, communication buses (Ethernet, EtherCAT, Serial, CAN, USB), and lab debugging tools.
C, C++, Python, RTOS, CI/CD, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Serial, CAN, USB, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, in-circuit debugger
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Principal Firmware Engineer – Server Manageability and Observability
Santa Clara, California, United States
$272k-$431k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
15+ YOE15+ years in system architecture, mastery of system firmware (SBIOS, OpenBMC), Linux kernel internals, management protocols (Redfish, IPMI), device protocols (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, RDE), networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet, InfiniBand); BS/MS in CS/EE or equivalent.
SBIOS, OpenBMC, Linux kernel, MCTP, PLDM, SPDM, RDE, Redfish, IPMI, TCP/IP, Ethernet, InfiniBand, NVLink, CUDA, cuDNN, DOCA
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Sr. Staff/Principal Engineer — GPU Driver & Systems Software
San Diego or San Jose
$179k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
MediaTek
MediaTekTaiwan Stock Exchange: 2454: Designs and develops system-on-chip solutions for electronic devices.
10+ YOE10+ years building GPU drivers or low-level systems software; fluent C/C++; deep knowledge of Vulkan/DirectX/OpenCL/OpenGL ES and GPU internals; experience with kernel-mode drivers, firmware, performance optimization.
C, C++, Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL ES, OpenCL
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Principal Security Researcher, OT/Healthcare
Santa Clara, California, United States
$163k-$263k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto NetworksNASDAQ: PANW: Provides enterprise-grade network, cloud, and endpoint security software.
4+ YOE4+ years' hands-on experience; strong firmware/boot ROM reverse engineering, kernel internals and secure boot knowledge; hardware debugging (UART, JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers); programming in C/C++ and Python; strong communication skills.
ARM, MIPS, x86_64, UART, JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, C/C++, Python, AI