Senior Firmware Engineer - OpenBMC & Data Center Platform

Oracle; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 97,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle seeks a senior staff-level engineer to own datacenter platform firmware development, across BIOS/UEFI and BMC for x86/ARM servers. You will work with product, infrastructure, security and platform teams in a matrixed environment and own early-stage prototype firmware.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and drive security and deployment readiness across platforms while collaborating with silicon vendors and contributing to OpenBMC-based stacks.

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 specific areas
• Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.
• Review BMC firmware to ensure it matches target platform needs (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 mechanisms meet OCI requirements
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade firmware across teams.

Skills

Secure boot

Hardware root of trust

TPM

UEFI

OpenBMC

Redfish

IPMI

PLDM

EDKII

Firmware design leadership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

OpenBMC

EDKII

UEFI

Redfish

IPMI

PLDM

Job description

Oracle seeks a senior staff-level engineer to own datacenter platform firmware development, across BIOS/UEFI and BMC for x86/ARM servers. You will work with product, infrastructure, security and platform teams in a matrixed environment and own early-stage prototype firmware.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and drive security and deployment readiness across platforms while collaborating with silicon vendors and contributing to OpenBMC-based stacks.