Staff Firmware Engineer, Data Center Platform

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to own prototype BIOS/UEFI work for x86 and ARM platforms, collaborating across product, infrastructure, security, and platform teams in a matrixed environment.

You will be hands-on, mentor engineers, and help extend OpenBMC and platform management interfaces, ensuring security, availability, and data-center deployability across vendor silicon and firmware stacks.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of firmware engineering experience including senior ownership of production systems.
• Knowledge of secure boot, TPM, measured boot and hardware root of trust.
• Handson firmware engineering skills in BIOS, BMC firmware or other platform firmware in server areas.
• Strong communication 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/thermal management and telemetry.
• Exposure to NIC/storage/GPU firmware and vendor silicon platforms (Intel/AMD/ARM/ASPEED).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop prototype BIOS/UEFI firmware for x86 and/or ARM platforms.
• Review BMC firmware and align with target platform needs.
• Comprehend interaction of all firmware in the data center rack.
• Develop and extend BMC firmware for DC-specific enhancements.
• Contribute to and extend OpenBMC platform management stacks.
• Integrate platform interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI, PLDM.
• Collaborate with silicon vendors on reference code and firmware updates.
• Ensure firmware meets OCI requirements for security and deployability.
• Mentor engineers and define standards for production-grade firmware across teams.

Skills

Firmware engineering

Secure boot / TPM

OpenBMC

Redfish / IPMI

BIOS / BMC firmware

EDK II

Cross-team leadership

Tools

OpenBMC tooling

EDK II

Job description

Oracle in Nashville is seeking a senior staff-level firmware engineer to own prototype BIOS/UEFI work for x86 and ARM platforms, collaborating across product, infrastructure, security, and platform teams in a matrixed environment.

You will be hands-on, mentor engineers, and help extend OpenBMC and platform management interfaces, ensuring security, availability, and data-center deployability across vendor silicon and firmware stacks.