Firmware & BIOS Platform Engineer – Bring-Up & Support

UST; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UST in Penang is seeking a Product / Platform Engineer specializing in BIOS and Firmware on post-launch x86 platforms. You will drive bring-up, firmware integration, debugging, validation, and customer issue resolution across hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, log analysis, and collaboration with validation and product engineering to deliver robust platform firmware and support customers through root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering or CS.
• 3–8 years of BIOS, firmware, embedded software, validation, or customer engineering experience.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve BIOS and firmware-related issues.
• Support platform bring-up, firmware integration, and validation activities.
• Debug boot flow, initialization, and platform configuration issues.
• Analyze firmware logs and hardware/software interactions.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, validation, and product engineering teams.
• Drive customer-reported issues through root cause analysis and resolution.
• Support customer escalations and technical reviews.

Skills

x86 architecture

UEFI BIOS

UEFI SEC/PEI/DXE

FSP integration

IFWI architecture

ACPI

SMBIOS

USB

SPI

I2C

UART

eMMC

SDMMC

Schematic reading

Memory initialization

Power/thermal/security

Debugging tools

Embedded C

Slim Bootloader (SBL)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent

Tools

SBL

Job description

UST in Penang is seeking a Product / Platform Engineer specializing in BIOS and Firmware on post-launch x86 platforms. You will drive bring-up, firmware integration, debugging, validation, and customer issue resolution across hardware and software teams.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, log analysis, and collaboration with validation and product engineering to deliver robust platform firmware and support customers through root-cause analysis.