Senior Firmware Engineer

Firmware Engineer 4 Duties of Position: (Include specific duties and responsibilities) The person should perform the following in his role:

• Architect Open BMC Solutions: Lead the design and implementation of Open-BMC distributions tailored for hyper scale hardware, including hardware abstraction layers and D-Bus interfaces.
• Hyper scale Collaboration: Partner with Hardware and Systems teams to define firmware requirements for OCP (Open Compute Project) compliant servers and storage enclosures.
• Modern CI/CD Integration: Drive automated testing and continuous integration workflows for firmware, ensuring high-velocity deployments without sacrificing stability.
• Security & Root of Trust: Implement and maintain platform security features, including Secure Boot and hardware Root of Trust (RoT) integration.
• Full-Stack Ownership: Manage firmware development from low-level boot loaders (U-Boot) to high-level management APIs (Redfish/gRPC).
• Production Support: Provide expert-level debugging for critical issues identified in hyper scale data centres, utilizing remote telemetry and crash dump analysis.
• Participate in firmware code development and code review process
• Provide weekly status updates to key stake-holders on development status Qualifications Required: (Education, experience, skills, etc. Please be specific) BS/MS/BE/BTech or ME/MTech in EE, CS, or CE with 8 to 12 years of relevant firmware experience.
• Sound knowledge of Embedded SW in C, C++, Real Time OS. Strong debugging skills, working with new/existing, complex code base
• Embedded programming experience for multi-thread architectures involving multiple processes, Board bring up
• Cloud-Scale Tooling: Experience with Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, and containerization (Docker) for firmware build environments.
• Hardware Bring-up: Experience with Aspeed AST2500/AST2600 (the industry- standard BMC chips) and low-level debugging using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• BMC rebranding, BIOS configuration, integration, Knowledge in FPGA Linux Socket programming and IPC, Shell scripting
• Knowledge and development experience in Web scripting, test Automation
• Hyperscale Experience: Proven track record of shipping firmware for Hyper-scalar data centre products (AWS, Azure, Meta, or Tier 1 OEMs).
• Open-Source: Strong history of working with Open-BMC; experience replacing proprietary stacks (AMI, Avocent) with open-source alternatives is highly preferred.