Senior Firmware Architect – Datacenter Platform & Security

Oracle

Nashville (TN)

On-site

USD 114,600 - 234,600

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to own design and development of datacenter platform firmware for x86 and ARM platforms. You will work across product, infrastructure, security and platform teams in a matrixed environment and will be deeply hands-on.

Responsibilities include BIOS/UEFI prototype development, BMC firmware reviews, and extending OpenBMC. You will collaborate with silicon vendors, integrate Redfish/IPMI/PLDM, and help ensure security and deployability of

Qualifications

10+ years of firmware engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.
Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust
Hands-on firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC FW or other platform firmware in server areas
Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority.
Knowledge of server firmware stacks such as EDKII, OpenBMC
Understanding of firmware standards such as UEFI, IPMI, Redfish
Understanding of server platform standards such as PLDM, ACPI, PCIe
Understanding of server power management, thermal management, telemetry
Exposure to NIC firmware, GPU firmware and storage firmware
Experience working on vendor silicon platform of one or more vendors (Intel, AMD, ARM, ASPEED …)

Responsibilities

Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.
Review BMC firmware to ensure that it matches with the needs of target platform (sensors, platform routing, security...).
Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the DC rack
Develop and enhance BMC firmware to add DC specific enhancements to standard firmware package
Contribute and extend Open-source platform management stacks such as OpenBMC
Integrate platform management interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI, PLDM...
Collaborate with Silicon vendors on reference code, firmware updates and firmware enablement.
Ensure that Firmware meets OCI's requirements for security, DC deployability, availability...
Ensure vendor firmware update mechanism's meet OCI requirements.
Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade firmware across teams.