Principal Firmware Engineer

Seeking a senior staff-level engineer with expertise in datacenter platform firmware. This role

requires working across product, infrastructure, security and platform teams both within and external

to the company in a highly matrixed environment. You will be deeply hands-on and will be required

to own developing prototype firmware in early stages of the product..

Responsibilities

Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.

Review BMC firmware to ensure that it matches with the needs of target platform (sensors, platform routing, security…)

Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the DC rack

Develop and enhance BMC firmware to add DC specific enhancements to standard firmware package

Contribute and extend Open-source platform management stacks such as OpenBMC

Integrate platform management interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI, PLDM…

Collaborate with Silicon vendors on reference code, firmware updates and firmware enablement.

Ensure that Firmware meets OCI’s requirements for security, DC deployability, availability…

Ensure vendor firmware update mechanism’s meet OCI requirements.

Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade firmware across teams.

Basic Qualifications

10+ years of firmware engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.

Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust

Handson firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC FW or other platform firmware in server specific areas

Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority.

Knowledge of server firmware stacks such as EDKII, OpenBMC…

Understanding of firmware standards such as UEFI, IPMI, Redfish …

Understanding of server platform standards such as PLDM, ACPI, PCIe …

Understanding of server power management, thermal management, telemetry

Exposure to NIC firmware, GPU firmware and storage firmware

Experience working on vendor silicon platform of one or more vendors (Intel, AMD, ARM, ASPEED … )