Principle BIOS Firmware Engineer

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

JOB SUMMARY

As a principal engineer, you work on the state-of-the-art server and storage firmware stack design, development, and solutions. Server and storage firmware and software development technical depth in areas like BMC, BIOS, Security stack, Firmware Infrastructure, experience in Linux stack development and commercialization is a plus. You will be the Principle Technical lead in architecture definition, design, and integration of new innovative storage and server intelligent infrastructure solutions.

What will you do? -   

• Technical lead in architecture definition, design, and integration of new innovative storage and server intelligent infrastructure solutions 

• Design, Develop, and Debug firmware by applying knowledge of server hardware architecture and system design. 

• Strong knowledge of Linux device drivers, OpenBMC implementation nuances 

• Creating/Review High-level and low-level design flows, ability to map those into firmware architecture and implementation  

• Co-review the HW schematic relative to the Firmware design. 

• Source code management (Git) , Code review for the design change, and release FW. 

• Communicate technical aspects of a project effectively to cross-functional teams. 

• Technical proposal and feature assessment, Assist in analyzing technical risks, blockers, and opportunities to ensure a smooth project transition. 

How will you get here?  - 

Education:   

• Bachelor or Master in Electronics, Computer science, software engineering or related equivalent experience is required 

Experience:

• Firmware development required 

• 7+ years related Firmware development With Server or Storage product experience Required 

• Min. Of 2 years in Open-source and Closed source server and storage stack experience is required 

• Min. Of 2 years Expertise in design and debugging Firmware, BIOS, Linux Kernel, and/or Linux OS issues on SoC and platform level, UEFI, Coreboot is required 

• Min. Of 2 years Solid Knowledge of low-level protocol, including I2C/I3C, PMBUS, SPI, UART, JTAG, GPIO/SGPIO is required 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:   

• The ability to influence others and share best practices.

• Understand and meet customer needs and expectations

• Work as part of a global team

• The ability to co-work with cross-function team

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions 

Preferred Qualifications:   

• BMC, openBMC, BIOS, RoT firmware solution experience   

• BIOS concept and experience is preferred

• Good C and C++ coding skills, including well design concepts and code tracing.

• Familiar with Linux operation system, kernel, and application.  

• Well understanding of BMC IPMI 2.0 and DCMI1.5, like IPMI Messaging, SDR, SEL, FRU, SOL, IPMB, LAN, KCS, event log, PEF, ME, NM, PECI.  

• Independently porting skill of BMC to custom HW or algorithm

• Experience in participating in at least one whole server project cycle

• Experience in Redfish or BMC WebUI or Linux kernel development

 

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