Staff Firmware Engineer

Rise Technical Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment agency is seeking a Staff Firmware Engineer to support and evolve production-quality firmware for infrastructure platform solutions. Candidates should be experts in embedded C with proven bootloader experience and a background in UEFI or ACPI. This role offers a competitive salary package alongside significant equity and exposure to cutting-edge infrastructure engineering. Join a world-leading tech organization and shape the future of global computing infrastructure.

Benefits

25 Days Holiday

8 Bank Holidays

4-week paid sabbatical every 4 years

Private Medical

Travel Insurance

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Progression

2 Pay Reviews per Year

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering and maintaining product-quality firmware.
• Essential hands-on bootloader experience.
• Familiar with RAS, hypervisors, CXL, power management, and security.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and evolve production-quality firmware for complex infrastructure platform solutions.
• Lead defect triage, management and fixing, including feature backporting for downstream releases.
• Act as a primary technical interface to customers on complex firmware and system software issues.

Skills

Expert in C for embedded systems

Strong low-level debugging skills

Background in UEFI / ACPI

Structured defect management

Open-source experience

Job description

Staff Firmware Engineer - Infrastructure Platforms

Bristol - Hybrid

£88,000-£115,000 base + circa $171,000 joining equity (4-year vesting) + circa $85,500 p.a. ongoing equity + 25 Days Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays + 4-week paid sabbatical every 4 years + 1 shutdown day per quarter + Private Medical + Travel Insurance + Electric Vehicle Scheme + Progression + 2 Pay Reviews per Year

Excellent opportunity for a Staff Firmware Engineer with deep embedded C experience to join a world-leading technology business and play a key role in the firmware that underpins the next generation of global computing infrastructure.

This organization has built one of the world's most pervasive compute architectures, powering everything from IoT and automotive through to desktops, data centres and the cloud. Their infrastructure platform solutions are the foundation for the next era of digital infrastructure, and this team is at the heart of delivering production-quality firmware to customers worldwide.

In this role you will join a core System Solutions team, owning the development, support and maintenance of platform firmware used in real-world infrastructure deployments. You'll lead defect triage and fixes, coordinate downstream release updates, and act as a primary technical interface to customers while collaborating closely with internal firmware and release engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in embedded C with a strong background in product-quality firmware, with proven, hands‑on bootloader experience as an essential requirement, alongside device drivers, ideally within server or infrastructure environments. You'll be comfortable owning complex defect management, working with standards such as UEFI and ACPI, and engaging directly with customers and open-source communities around infrastructure platform solutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a truly world-leading organization, work on technology that sits at the core of 'wherever computing happens', and benefit from a highly competitive package, exceptional equity and long-term career progression within cutting-edge infrastructure engineering.

The Role

• Support, maintain and evolve production-quality firmware for complex infrastructure platform solutions
• Lead defect triage, management and fixing, including feature backporting for downstream releases
• Act as a primary technical interface to customers on complex firmware and system software issues
• Collaborate with firmware and release teams on bootloaders, device drivers, UEFI / ACPI and system software

The Person

• Expert in C for embedded systems with strong low-level debugging skills
• Proven experience delivering and maintaining product-quality firmware, with essential hands‑on bootloader experience (plus device drivers and system software)
• Background in UEFI / ACPI and structured defect management for complex systems (ideally server / infrastructure)
• Familiar with RAS, hypervisors, CXL, power management and security; open-source experience highly beneficial

Reference Number : BBBH266754

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The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.