SW Embedded BIOS Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Spring, TX

2d•$110,000 - $253,000•Onsite

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a software engineer to help bring up and enable complex high-performance computing (HPC) 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. It designs, develops, and maintains BIOS and platform-firmware enhancements for server and HPC platforms, and assesses design, coding, integration, and validation work against product goals, platform architecture, hardware dependencies, and firmware requirements. The engineer creates and executes test plans, protocols, and documentation; debugs and resolves firmware, hardware-initialization, and system-integration issues; and coordinates project work with software engineers, hardware partners, BIOS vendors, and development partners. The position communicates design status, project progress, technical risks, and issue resolution to management and internal and external partners. It represents the system software engineering team through larger, complex development programs and provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff. The posting also describes broader systems-software engineering duties, including developing subsystems, leading project teams, and testing and integrating software into application architecture. This is an onsite position, primarily based at an HPE office. HPE describes its workplace as inclusive and offers benefits supporting health and wellbeing, along with programs for personal and professional development. The stated U.S. base salary range is $110,000–$253,000 annually in Texas and Wisconsin; variable incentives may also be offered. The estimated application-period closure is January 11, 2027.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
At least 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, particularly 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 clearly.
Ability to communicate product architectures, firmware design proposals, technical tradeoffs, and recommended options effectively to engineering teams and management.

Nice To Haves

Experience with server platform bring-up and 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 according 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, and system integration issues.
Lead or coordinate project 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 through phases of larger and more complex BIOS and platform-firmware programs.
Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.
Design enhancements, updates, and programming changes for systems-software portions and subsystems.
Analyze software designs and determine coding, programming, and integration activities based on objectives and product architecture.
Create and execute testing plans, protocols, and documentation; debug code and integration issues and develop solutions.
Lead project teams of software systems engineers and internal and outsourced development partners.
Represent the software systems engineering team through phases of larger and more complex development projects.