Principal Embedded Firmware & Systems Architect

HP; Georgia; On-site; USD 147,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Long term/short term disability

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Parental leave

11 paid holidays

Paid vacation

Job summary

HP is seeking a Principal Embedded Firmware and Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and debugging of embedded software and firmware for computer systems in the United States. You will drive system-level technical leadership, ensuring seamless integration between hardware and software while collaborating with hardware, QA, and product teams.

Responsibilities include architecture leadership for BIOS/UEFI, RTOS, drivers, and integration; automation with Python; and advancing CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or advanced degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in embedded firmware, embedded software, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for architecture, development, security, integration, debugging, validation, and deployment of embedded firmware and software including BIOS/UEFI, EFI applications and drivers, embedded controllers, and RTOS-based systems.
• Analyze hardware and system architectures to define firmware requirements, dependencies, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches.
• Troubleshoot and resolve firmware issues by designing enhancements, updates, and programming changes across firmware subsystems.
• Define and drive firmware integration, verification, and validation strategies, including automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration.
• Develop and improve engineering tools and automation using Python and other appropriate technologies for development, debugging, testing, analysis, and validation.
• Advance CI/CD and DevSecOps practices for embedded development to improve engineering velocity, quality, traceability, and release confidence.
• Evaluate and apply AI-assisted software development and engineering tools where they can improve developer productivity, code quality, debugging, test development, documentation, or engineering workflows while meeting applicable security and intellectual-property requirements.

Skills

Embedded C

Python

RTOS

BIOS/UEFI

Embedded systems

Debugging

Firmware security

Linux

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or advanced degrees in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Linux

Job description

HP is seeking a Principal Embedded Firmware and Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and debugging of embedded software and firmware for computer systems in the United States. You will drive system-level technical leadership, ensuring seamless integration between hardware and software while collaborating with hardware, QA, and product teams.

Responsibilities include architecture leadership for BIOS/UEFI, RTOS, drivers, and integration; automation with Python; and advancing CI/CD