Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development

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

Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer - New Product Development

Huntsville, AL

The Company

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.

Background Profile

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.

Additional Job Details

• Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000

• Location: Huntsville, AL

• Type of Role: Full-time, Direct Hire

• Travel Required: Minimal

• Relocation Assistance: Yes

• Visa Sponsorship: U.S. Citizen, Green Card