Principal Firmware Engineer (OCI AI Infra/Servers)

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to own prototype BIOS/UEFI work for x86 and ARM platforms, collaborating across product, infrastructure, security, and platform teams in a matrixed environment.

You will be hands-on, mentor engineers, and help extend OpenBMC and platform management interfaces, ensuring security, availability, and data-center deployability across vendor silicon and firmware stacks.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of firmware engineering experience including senior ownership of production systems.
• Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust.
• Handson firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC firmware or other platform firmware in server areas.
• Strong communication and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Knowledge of server firmware stacks such as EDKII, OpenBMC.
• Understanding of firmware standards such as UEFI, IPMI, Redfish.
• Understanding of server platform standards such as PLDM, ACPI, PCIe.
• Understanding of server power/thermal management and telemetry.
• Exposure to NIC/storage/GPU firmware and vendor silicon platforms (Intel/AMD/ARM/ASPEED).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.
• Review BMC firmware and align with target platform needs.
• Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the data center rack.
• Develop and extend BMC firmware for DC-specific enhancements.
• Contribute to and extend OpenBMC platform management stacks.
• Integrate platform interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI, PLDM.
• Collaborate with silicon vendors on reference code and firmware updates.
• Ensure firmware meets OCI requirements for security and deployability.
• Mentor engineers and define standards for production-grade firmware across teams.

Skills

Firmware engineering

Secure boot / TPM

OpenBMC

Redfish / IPMI

BIOS / BMC firmware

EDK II

Cross-team leadership

Tools

OpenBMC tooling

EDK II

Job description

Job Description

Seeking a senior staff-level engineer with expertise in datacenter platform firmware. This role requires working across product, infrastructure, security and platform teams both within and external to the company in a highly matrixed environment. You will be deeply hands-on and will be required to own developing prototype firmware in early stages of the product.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.
• Review BMC firmware to ensure that it matches with the needs of target platform (sensors, platform routing, security…)
• Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the DC rack
• Develop and enhance BMC firmware to add DC specific enhancements to standard firmware package
• Contribute and extend Open-ource platform management stacks such as OpenBMC
• Integrate platform management interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI, PLDM…
• Collaborate with Silicon vendors on reference code, firmware updates and firmware enablement.
• Ensure that Firmware meets OCI’s requirements for security, DC deployability, availability…
• Ensure vendor firmware update mechanism’s meet OCI requirements.
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade firmware across teams.

Basic Qualifications

• 6-10 years of firmware engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.
• Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust
• Handson firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC FW or other platform firmware in server specific areas
• Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Knowledge of server firmware stacks such as EDKII, OpenBMC…
• Understanding of firmware standards such as UEFI, IPMI, Redfish …
• Understanding of server platform standards such as PLDM, ACPI, PCIe …
• Understanding of server power management, thermal management, telemetry
• Exposure to NIC firmware, GPU firmware and storage firmware
• Experience working on vendor silicon platform of one or more vendors (Intel, AMD, ARM, ASPEED … )

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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