Principal Firmware Engineer

About the role

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.

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
• Hands-on 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 … )

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Pay

Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.