Senior Firmware Engineer, Data Center BIOS / OpenBMC Lead

Oracle; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 97,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to design and prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86/ARM datacenter platforms. You will review BMC firmware, collaborate with silicon vendors, and extend OpenBMC while ensuring security and reliability across DC deployments.

You will work across product, infrastructure, security, and platform teams in a matrixed environment, mentoring engineers and defining standards. This US-based role emphasizes hands-on firmware development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of firmware engineering experience with production systems.
• Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust.
• Handson firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC FW or other platform firmware in server specific 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.

Skills

BIOS/UEFI

OpenBMC

Redfish

IPMI

PLDM

EDK II

Firmware security

Secure boot

TPM

Server firmware

Tools

OpenBMC

EDK II

Job description

Oracle is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to design and prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86/ARM datacenter platforms. You will review BMC firmware, collaborate with silicon vendors, and extend OpenBMC while ensuring security and reliability across DC deployments.

You will work across product, infrastructure, security, and platform teams in a matrixed environment, mentoring engineers and defining standards. This US-based role emphasizes hands-on firmware development.