Senior Principal Firmware Engineer (OCI)

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 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 requirements for security, datacenter deployability, and availability.
• Ensure vendor firmware update mechanisms meet requirements.
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade firmware across teams.

Requirements

• 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 platforms of one or more vendors (Intel, AMD, ARM, ASPEED…).

Pay

Hiring range in USD from: $135,200 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 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 for salaried employees; accrued vacation for others (13 days annually for first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; prorated for part-time).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshes annually, carries over up to 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal services.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.