Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer - Embedded Platform Bring-up

ExcelliSearch, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship (where applicable)

Job summary

ExcelliSearch, Inc. in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer to own BIOS development for new rugged embedded computing platforms. You will adapt AMI/Intel reference BIOS to new hardware and lead bring-up with hardware and firmware teams.

Key responsibilities include developing and customizing UEFI BIOS, debugging startup issues, and driving BIOS from initial bring-up through production. This role requires hands-on experience with UEFI and on-site work in Huntsville.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience.
• Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience required.
• Demonstrated experience developing BIOS personally.
• Experience with BIOS bring-up on new hardware.
• BIOS on boards they've brought up.
• Strong working proficiency in C.
• Low-level programming including registers, memory and peripherals.
• BIOS customization for new hardware.
• Understanding hardware/firmware interaction.
• Troubleshooting hardware/firmware integration during bring-up.
• Ability to work with hardware engineers and other disciplines.
• Willingness to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama.

Responsibilities

• Develop and customize UEFI BIOS for new rugged embedded platforms.
• Perform BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards.
• Debug hardware/firmware issues during initial startup.
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA and software engineers to validate system functionality.
• Support interfaces like USB, PCIe, SATA and other board-level functions.
• Take BIOS development from bring-up to production.

Skills

UEFI BIOS development

BIOS customization

Intel reference BIOS

x86/x86-64 platforms

C programming

low-level programming

BIOS bring-up

hardware/firmware interaction

team collaboration

on-site work

Tools

Git or Perforce

Jenkins/CI

JIRA/Confluence

Klocwork/static analysis

Xilinx SDK

U-Boot

Slim Bootloader

Job description

ExcelliSearch, Inc. in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer to own BIOS development for new rugged embedded computing platforms. You will adapt AMI/Intel reference BIOS to new hardware and lead bring-up with hardware and firmware teams.

Key responsibilities include developing and customizing UEFI BIOS, debugging startup issues, and driving BIOS from initial bring-up through production. This role requires hands-on experience with UEFI and on-site work in Huntsville.