Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development

Software Placement Group; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Software Placement Group in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer to join our engineering team. You will lead BIOS development for rugged embedded computing platforms, starting from AMI/Intel references and guiding boards from bring-up to production.

You will collaborate with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers, perform BIOS bring-up on new designs, debug issues at power-on, and ensure interfaces like USB, PCIe, SATA function correctly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience.
• Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience required.
• Demonstrated experience personally developing BIOS and bringing up on hardware.
• Experience customizing or porting BIOS to new hardware.
• Strong understanding of hardware/firmware interaction.

Responsibilities

• Develop and customize UEFI BIOS for rugged embedded products from AMI/Intel references.
• Perform BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards and debug startup issues.
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA and software engineers to validate system functionality.
• Support interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA and other board-level features.
• Carry BIOS development from bring-up through production.

Skills

BIOS development

UEFI BIOS

C programming

Hardware bring-up

Low-level programming

Tools

AMI BIOS

Intel reference BIOS

Job description

Location: Huntsville, AL | Schedule: Full-time, on-site | Compensation: $150,000 - $190,000

Overview

An established provider of rugged embedded computing solutions for demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications is seeking a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer to join its Huntsville engineering organization. This role serves as the site's key BIOS/UEFI specialist, working closely with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers on new product development from initial board bring-up through production.

What you'll do

• Develop and customize UEFI BIOS for new rugged embedded computing products, starting from an AMI BIOS / Intel reference BIOS and adapting it to newly designed hardware
• Perform BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards
• Debug hardware/firmware issues during initial board startup
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, and other firmware engineers to validate system functionality
• Support interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA, and other board-level functionality
• Carry BIOS development from initial bring-up through production

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience (less may be considered for an exceptional background)
• Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience required rather than legacy BIOS exposure alone
• Demonstrated experience personally developing BIOS, not simply working with systems that use BIOS
• Experience with BIOS bring-up on newly designed hardware, where the candidate's BIOS actually ran on the board they helped bring up
• Strong working proficiency in C
• Ability to perform low-level programming involving registers, memory, and peripherals
• Experience customizing or porting BIOS to new hardware
• Strong understanding of hardware/firmware interaction
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware integration issues during board bring-up
• Ability to work directly with hardware engineers and other engineering disciplines
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Willingness and ability to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama
• Hands-on UEFI BIOS development experience
• BIOS customization for new hardware
• Experience with Intel/x86/x86-64 platforms
• Understanding of computer architecture and platform initialization
• U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (visa sponsorship not available)

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Intel reference BIOS is highly valuable
• AMI BIOS experience
• Phoenix BIOS experience
• Secure Boot / Trusted Boot experience
• Intel Core i7 experience
• AMD processor / Ryzen UEFI experience
• ARM, NXP/Freescale, or PowerPC experience
• Built-In Test (BIT) experience
• IPMI experience
• Embedded Linux experience
• Xilinx SDK experience
• NXP K21 experience
• U-Boot experience
• Slim Bootloader experience
• RTOS experience
• GCC and cross-compiler experience
• Rugged embedded computing experience
• VPX / OpenVPX experience
• VME experience
• CompactPCI experience
• Defense/aerospace experience
• DO-178B/C experience
• Git or Perforce experience
• Klocwork/static analysis experience
• Jenkins/continuous integration experience
• JIRA and Confluence experience
• Agile/Scrum development experience
• Experience supporting BIOS through product release, manufacturing, or sustaining activities

Compensation and benefits

• Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000
• Full-time, direct hire position
• Minimal travel required
• Relocation assistance provided

Why this role

This position offers significant technical ownership of BIOS development on new embedded computing platforms, working at the level where hardware, firmware, BIOS, and operating systems intersect, with involvement from early board bring-up through production.