Senior Firmware Engineer, Data Center Platform & BMC

Oracle; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking a senior staff-level engineer to design and implement datacenter firmware, focusing on BIOS/UEFI for x86/ARM platforms, and collaborating across product, infrastructure, security and platform teams in a matrixed environment.

You will own prototype firmware in early development, mentor engineers, review BMC firmware, and contribute to OpenBMC and platform management interfaces such as Redfish and IPMI.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of firmware engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.
• Experience with secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust.
• Hands-on firmware development in BIOS, BMC firmware 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

Hands-on firmware engineering

Strong communication skills

Leadership across teams

Prototype firmware ownership

Production systems ownership

Tools

EDKII

OpenBMC

UEFI

IPMI

Redfish

PLDM

Job description

Oracle US is seeking a senior staff-level engineer to design and implement datacenter firmware, focusing on BIOS/UEFI for x86/ARM platforms, and collaborating across product, infrastructure, security and platform teams in a matrixed environment.

You will own prototype firmware in early development, mentor engineers, review BMC firmware, and contribute to OpenBMC and platform management interfaces such as Redfish and IPMI.