Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development

NPAworldwide; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide in Huntsville, AL, seeks a Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer to develop and customize BIOS for rugged embedded computing platforms. You will start from AMI/Intel reference BIOS and adapt it to new hardware, owning BIOS development from bring-up to production.

You will work closely with hardware, FPGA, IPMC, and software teams to resolve complex platform initialization issues and ensure robust BIOS functionality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on BIOS development experience.
• Strong experience with UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI required.
• Demonstrated BIOS development on boards during bring-up.
• Experience with BIOS customization for new hardware.
• Strong C programming and low-level hardware interaction.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

UEFI BIOS development

C programming

BIOS bring-up

Intel x86_64

Hardware/firmware debugging

Embedded systems

Cross-disciplinary communication

On-site Huntsville

Job description

The Company

Join a leader in rugged embedded computing solutions supporting demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications.

Job Description

Join a leader in rugged embedded computing solutions supporting demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications.

This is an opportunity to join the Huntsville engineering organization as the site's key BIOS/UEFI specialist, working closely with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers on next-generation embedded computing products.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

You will work on new product development, starting with an AMI/Intel reference BIOS and customizing it for newly designed hardware. You will have meaningful ownership of how the BIOS is developed and will be involved from initial board bring-up through a working product.

What Makes This Role Different

• Become the primary BIOS/UEFI technical specialist in the Huntsville organization.
• Work directly with hardware and firmware engineers during new board bring-up.
• Customize and develop BIOS for new embedded computing platforms rather than simply maintaining legacy code.
• Start with AMI BIOS / Intel reference BIOS and adapt it to hardware.
• Work at the fundamental platform level where hardware, firmware, BIOS, and operating systems come together.
• Have significant technical ownership and latitude in BIOS development.
• Solve challenging hardware-versus-firmware issues alongside engineers from multiple disciplines.
• Take products from early hardware/BIOS bring-up toward production.
• The hiring team is specifically looking for someone who has personally developed UEFI BIOS and participated in board bring-up on hardware running the BIOS they developed.

They Value and Appreciate Their Employees.

The Team Is Looking For An Engineer Who Brings

• Strong technical ownership and engineering judgment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Enthusiasm for solving difficult technical problems.
• The ability to explain technical issues clearly to engineers from different disciplines.
• A hands‑on approach to hardware/firmware debugging.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with hardware, FPGA, IPMC, and software engineers.

Your Role With The Company - New Product Development

As a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer, you will develop and customize BIOS for new products that are rugged embedded computing platforms. You will work from an AMI/Intel reference BIOS, adapt it to new hardware, and support BIOS bring-up alongside the hardware and firmware teams.

Your Work Will Include

• Developing and customizing UEFI BIOS for new products.
• Performing BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards.
• Debugging hardware/firmware issues during initial board startup.
• Working with hardware, FPGA, and other firmware engineers to validate system functionality.
• Supporting interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA, and other board‑level functionality.
• Taking BIOS development from initial bring-up through production.

Qualifications

Must Have

• 5+ years of hands‑on BIOS development experience. (will consider less for exceptional background)
• Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience is 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.
• Experience 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.
• Core BIOS / UEFI Background
• Hands‑on UEFI BIOS development.
• BIOS customization for new hardware.
• Experience with Intel reference BIOS is highly valuable.
• Experience with Intel/x86/x86‑64 platforms.
• Understanding of computer architecture and platform initialization.

Desired

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

Why Is This a Great Opportunity

You will work on new product development, starting with an AMI/Intel reference BIOS and customizing it for newly designed hardware. You will have meaningful ownership of how the BIOS is developed and will be involved from initial board bring‑up through a working product.

The hiring team is specifically looking for someone who has personally developed UEFI BIOS and participated in board bring‑up on hardware running the BIOS they developed.