Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development
Huntsville, AL
The Company
Join a leader in rugged embedded computing solutions supporting demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications.
This is an opportunity to join the Huntsville engineering organization as the site's key BIOS/UEFI specialist, working closely with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers on next-generation embedded computing products.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
You will work on new product development, starting with an AMI/Intel reference BIOS and customizing it for newly designed hardware. You will have meaningful ownership of how the BIOS is developed and will be involved from initial board bring-up through a working product.
What Makes This Role Different
• Become the primary BIOS/UEFI technical specialist in the Huntsville organization.
• Work directly with hardware and firmware engineers during new board bring-up.
• Customize and develop BIOS for new embedded computing platforms rather than simply maintaining legacy code.
• Start with AMI BIOS / Intel reference BIOS and adapt it to hardware.
• Work at the fundamental platform level where hardware, firmware, BIOS, and operating systems come together.
• Have significant technical ownership and latitude in BIOS development.
• Solve challenging hardware-versus-firmware issues alongside engineers from multiple disciplines.
• Take products from early hardware/BIOS bring-up toward production.
The hiring team is specifically looking for someone who has personally developed UEFI BIOS and participated in board bring-up on hardware running the BIOS they developed.
They Vale and Appreciate Their Employees
The team is looking for an engineer who brings:
• Strong technical ownership and engineering judgment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Enthusiasm for solving difficult technical problems.
• The ability to explain technical issues clearly to engineers from different disciplines.
• A hands-on approach to hardware/firmware debugging.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with hardware, FPGA, IPMC, and software engineers.
Your Role with the Company -New Product Development
As a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer, you will develop and customize BIOS for new products that are rugged embedded computing platforms. You will work from an AMI/Intel reference BIOS, adapt it to new hardware, and support BIOS bring-up alongside the hardware and firmware teams.
Your work will include:
• Developing and customizing UEFI BIOS for new products.
• Performing BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards.
• Debugging hardware/firmware issues during initial board startup.
• Working with hardware, FPGA, and other firmware engineers to validate system functionality.
• Supporting interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA, and other board-level functionality.
• Taking BIOS development from initial bring-up through production.
Background Profile
Must Have
• 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience. (will consider less for exceptional background)
• Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience is required rather than legacy BIOS exposure alone.
• Demonstrated experience personally developing BIOS, not simply working with systems that use BIOS.
• Experience with BIOS bring-up on newly designed hardware.
• Experience where the candidate's BIOS actually ran on the board they helped bring up.
• Strong working proficiency in C.
• Ability to perform low-level programming involving registers, memory, and peripherals.
• Experience customizing or porting BIOS to new hardware.
• Strong understanding of hardware/firmware interaction.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware integration issues during board bring-up.
• Ability to work directly with hardware engineers and other engineering disciplines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness and ability to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama.
Core BIOS / UEFI Background
• Hands-on UEFI BIOS development.
• BIOS customization for new hardware.
• Experience with Intel reference BIOS is highly valuable.
• Experience with Intel/x86/x86-64 platforms.
• Understanding of computer architecture and platform initialization.
Desired
• AMI BIOS experience
• Phoenix BIOS experience.
• Secure Boot / Trusted Boot.
• Intel Core i7 experience.
• AMD processor / Ryzen UEFI experience.
• ARM, NXP/Freescale, or PowerPC experience.
• Built-In Test (BIT).
• IPMI.
• Embedded Linux.
• Xilinx SDK.
• NXP K21.
• U-Boot.
• Slim Bootloader.
• RTOS experience.
• GCC and cross-compilers.
• Rugged embedded computing.
• VPX / OpenVPX.
• VME.
• CompactPCI.
• Defense/aerospace experience.
• DO-178B/C.
• Git or Perforce.
• Klocwork/static analysis.
• Jenkins/continuous integration.
• JIRA and Confluence.
• Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Experience supporting BIOS through product release, manufacturing, or sustaining activities.
Additional Job Details
• Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000
• Location: Huntsville, AL
• Type of Role: Full-time, Direct Hire
• Travel Required: Minimal
• Relocation Assistance: Yes
• Visa Sponsorship: U.S. Citizen, Green Card