SW Embedded BIOS Engineer
About The Position
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring an SW Embedded BIOS Engineer to help bring up and enable complex high-performance computing platforms across BIOS, hardware, operating system, and validation boundaries. The role contributes to early platform definition, firmware implementation and debugging, and release readiness for systems where reliability, performance, and hardware integration are critical. The position is onsite, with the expectation that the employee will primarily work from an HPE office. The engineer designs, develops, maintains, tests, and debugs BIOS enhancements and platform firmware for server and HPC systems. The work includes assessing design, coding, integration, and validation against product goals, platform architecture, hardware dependencies, and firmware requirements. The engineer also coordinates with software and hardware engineers, BIOS vendors, and development partners; communicates project status and technical risks; represents the system software team on complex programs; and mentors less-experienced staff. HPE describes its culture as inclusive and supportive of varied backgrounds, with flexibility to manage work and personal needs and programs for personal and professional development. The position offers health and wellbeing benefits; specific benefit-plan details are available through HPE's US employee-benefits enrollment information. The listed annual base salary range is USD 110,000–253,000 in Texas and Wisconsin. Variable incentives may also be offered. Actual offers may vary based on location, experience, education or training, and skill level.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in BIOS development.
- Expertise with software systems design tools and programming languages used in platform firmware development, including C and C++.
- Expertise with BIOS technologies across multiple processor families, chipsets, and platform architectures.
- Expertise with UEFI firmware development, including platform initialization, driver development, debugging, and integration.
- Experience porting BIOS from a third-party vendor implementation to a proprietary platform.
- Experience with Linux development environments, build tools, scripting, and firmware debug workflows.
- Strong analytical, assessment, and problem-solving skills for complex hardware, firmware, and system integration issues.
- Experience designing software systems that run across multiple platform types and hardware configurations.
- Experience with firmware testing methodologies, including test-plan creation, debug workflows, automation, test scripts, and tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to explain technical issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Ability to communicate product architectures, firmware design proposals, technical tradeoffs, and recommended options to engineering teams and management.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with server platform bring-up.
- Experience with silicon initialization.
- Experience with ACPI, SMBIOS, IPMI, or Redfish-related firmware interfaces.
- Experience with secure boot and firmware update flows.
- Experience with board-level debug tools.
- Experience collaborating with BIOS vendors or silicon partners.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain BIOS enhancements, updates, and programming changes for server and high-performance computing platforms.
- Assess design, coding, integration, and validation activities in relation to product goals, platform architecture, hardware dependencies, and firmware requirements.
- Write and execute test plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned BIOS and platform-firmware areas.
- Identify, debug, and resolve firmware behavior, hardware initialization, code, and integration issues.
- Lead or coordinate work with software engineers, hardware partners, BIOS vendors, and development partners to deliver reliable, cost-effective, high-quality firmware solutions.
- Communicate firmware design status, project progress, technical risks, and issue resolution to management, internal teams, and outsourced development partners.
- Represent the system software engineering team throughout larger and more complex BIOS and platform-firmware development programs.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.
- Design enhancements and programming changes for systems software portions or subsystems, and analyze required coding, programming, and integration activities.
- Lead project teams involving software systems engineers and internal or outsourced development partners.
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal and professional development programs.
- Variable incentives may be offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
