Principal UEFI Firmware Engineer for Hyperscale Servers

Graphcore; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical coverage

dental and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

disability and life insurance

a 401(k) retirement plan

commuter benefits

wellness services

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Staff UEFI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy UEFI-based firmware for Graphcore’s hyperscale AI server platforms. This role focuses on system firmware responsible for platform initialization, hardware configuration, and reliability features across large-scale data center deployments.

The Firmware Engineering team collaborates with silicon engineering, hardware design, BMC firmware teams, validation engineers, and platform architects to enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Strong experience developing UEFI or BIOS firmware for server platforms.
• Expertise with UEFI, TianoCore, and firmware architecture design.
• Strong experience developing firmware solutions for hyperscale or cloud data center environments.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++.
• Deep understanding of DDR memory training, cache coherency protocols, and PCIe subsystems.
• Strong knowledge of server platform architecture including power delivery, thermal management, sensors, and FRUs.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for firmware development.
• Experience debugging system firmware using logic analyzers, JTAG, GDB, and similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy UEFI-based firmware for hyperscale server platforms.
• Collaborate with ODM partners throughout the design lifecycle from concept to mass production.
• Integrate UEFI firmware into CI/CD pipelines enabling automated builds, regression testing, and static analysis.
• Develop firmware functionality supporting platform initialization including CPU, memory, PCIe, and system interconnects.
• Implement system firmware security features including root of trust, secure boot chains, and signed firmware updates.
• Develop platform firmware features supporting server reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).
• Build firmware interfaces supporting telemetry, firmware updates, and system management capabilities.
• Collaborate with hardware, BMC, security, and validation teams to ensure full platform integration.
• Debug and perform root cause analysis for firmware and hardware issues across lab and production environments.

Skills

UEFI firmware

BIOS firmware

C/C++

TianoCore

Firmware architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Debugging (JTAG, GDB)

Server platform architecture

DDR memory training

PCIe subsystems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

EDK II

JTAG

GDB

Job description

Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Staff UEFI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy UEFI-based firmware for Graphcore’s hyperscale AI server platforms. This role focuses on system firmware responsible for platform initialization, hardware configuration, and reliability features across large-scale data center deployments.

The Firmware Engineering team collaborates with silicon engineering, hardware design, BMC firmware teams, validation engineers, and platform architects to enable