Firmware Systems Engineer — Hardware Security & OpenBMC

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Employee Stock Participation

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer with a firmware focus in the U.S. to advance the Hardware team’s security goals and projects for 2027 and beyond.

You will maintain OpenBMC firmware, design features aligned with industry standards, and collaborate with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust hardware solutions while contributing to security and reliability across global infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience developing firmware and/or embedded software.
• Knowledgeable about servers, enterprise systems and hardware interfaces.
• A good understanding of hardware security for servers.
• Familiarity with Redfish standards.
• Curious and very eager to learn.
• Great communication, collaboration and detail oriented.
• Can build firmwares from open source codes, build demos & POCs, setup systems & run synthetic tests, and debug complex firmware problems as needed.
• Can create python/bash scripts and edit firmware/driver source code.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve OpenBMC firmware.
• Design and implement features based on standards such as OCP and DMTF.
• Collaborate with vendors to align requirements.
• Develop observability and configuration solutions for server subsystems.
• Partner with internal teams to address hardware security needs and roadmap.
• Contribute to HW provisioning in the lab and BIOS/firmware tooling.

Skills

Firmware/embedded SW

Servers/hardware knowledge

Hardware security

Redfish standards

Curious learner

Communication & collaboration

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Yocto/Buildroot

UEFI

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer with a firmware focus in the U.S. to advance the Hardware team’s security goals and projects for 2027 and beyond.

You will maintain OpenBMC firmware, design features aligned with industry standards, and collaborate with vendors and internal teams to deliver robust hardware solutions while contributing to security and reliability across global infrastructure.