Senior Firmware Architect, Datacenter Platforms

Oracle; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle seeks a senior staff-level firmware engineer to design and prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and ARM servers. You will work across DC platforms in a matrixed environment, owning hands-on firmware from early development stages and mentoring engineers.

You will focus on secure boot, TPM, platform management with OpenBMC, Redfish/IPMI/PLDM integrations, and collaborate with silicon vendors to ensure OCI security and deployment readiness. Oracle US locations apply.

Qualifications

• 10 years of firmware engineering experience with 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 firmware 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 alignment with target platform needs (sensors, security).
• Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the DC rack.
• Develop and enhance BMC firmware for DC-specific enhancements.
• Contribute and extend OpenBMC and platform management stacks.
• Integrate Redfish, IPMI, PLDM interfaces.
• Collaborate with silicon vendors on reference code and firmware enablement.
• Ensure firmware meets OCI security and deployability requirements.
• Mentor engineers and drive design reviews for maintainable firmware.

Skills

Firmware engineering

Secure boot & TPM

Leadership across teams

OpenBMC / Open-source firmware

BIOS/BMC firmware

Server firmware stacks (EDK II/OpenBMC

Redfish/IPMI/PLDM

Tools

EDK II

OpenBMC

Redfish

IPMI

PLDM

Job description

Oracle seeks a senior staff-level firmware engineer to design and prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and ARM servers. You will work across DC platforms in a matrixed environment, owning hands-on firmware from early development stages and mentoring engineers.

You will focus on secure boot, TPM, platform management with OpenBMC, Redfish/IPMI/PLDM integrations, and collaborate with silicon vendors to ensure OCI security and deployment readiness. Oracle US locations apply.