Hardware Firmware Engineer

Firmware Engineer BIOS/UEFI Description - The Firmware Engineer is responsible for ensuring that embedded firmware meets the highest standards of quality, robustness, and long‑term reliability. This role works closely with firmware developers, hardware engineers, architecture teams, QA, and cross‑functional partners to define quality metrics, validate system behavior, improve defect detection, and build processes that prevent regressions. Responsibilities Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive firmware test plans, including functional, regression, stress, corner-case, and long-duration reliability tests. • • • Evaluates the firmware architecture, design and development plus testing methodologies to create strategy and implement methods to bring increased quality and reliability to the firmware. Reviews firmware code and test plans including functional, regression, stress, corner-case and long-duration reliability tests. Perform root-cause analysis for firmware defects, drive containment, corrective actions, and verification of fixes. Create and manage quality dashboards, KPI, failure rates, and reliability metrics. Evaluate failure modes exposed during design, development, manufacturing and field use; propose design or process improvements to prevent recurrence. Works with product architects, firmware teams, product managers and provides critical guidance, system-level debugging and troubleshooting to various teams, as a Subject Matter Expert. Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk. Create and manage quality dashboards , KPIs, failure rates, and reliability metrics. Validate firmware integration with hardware, BIOS/UEFI, EC, micro

Embedded Firmware and Software Engineer Description - This role is responsible for driving design, development, and debugging of embedded software/firmware for hardware, ensuring efficient and reliable operation. The role collaborates with hardware engineers to integrate software and firmware with hardware components, ensuring seamless communication and functionality. The role works closely with software developers, hardware engineers, quality assurance, and product managers to deliver high-quality products. Responsibilities Owns the preparation and creation of instructional technical manuscripts for firmware operation. Allocates resources to complete programming projects, and designing detailed plans to ensure firmware is functioning properly. Designs enhancements, updates, and programming changes for portions and subsystems of firmware, including DSP, embedded code, EFI drivers, EFI applications and BIOS/UEFI. Analyzes design and determines coding, programming, and integration activities required based on general objectives and knowledge of overall architecture of product or solution. Writes and executes complete testing plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned portion of application; creates solutions for issues with code and integrates into application architecture. Leads a project team of other software firmware engineers and internal and outsourced development partners to develop reliable, cost effective and high quality solutions for assigned systems portion or subsystem. Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding firmware design status, project progress, and issue resolution. Represents the software firmware engineering team for all phases of larger and more-complex development projects, from microarchitecture design thro

Distinguished Technologist - Principal Architect, Platform Security and Firmware Systems Description - HP is seeking a senior technical leader to serve as a lead architect for hardware rooted Platform Root of Trust for HP's commercial PC platform. In this role, you will be responsible for envisioning, defining, and driving the architecture of hardware, firmware, software, and cloud-integrated security capabilities that protect HP commercial PCs from current and emerging threats. You will also work across the hardware and security architecture teams, collaborate with HP's Security Research Labs, Firmware (BIOS) team, our security business that creates and deploys industry leading enterprise security and manageability solutions, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, customer enablement, and field organizations to create cohesive system solutions that deliver unique customer value. This position requires deep expertise in embedded systems, platform firmware, hardware, security, device manageability, and PC system architecture. The role also requires the ability to translate complex technical capabilities into customer-relevant value propositions and to influence internal and external stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority. Responsibilities Serve as principal architect for HP Endpoint Security Controller roadmap, associated hardware and firmware based capabilities, cryptographic identity, attestation, secure communication, event logging, and future controller generations. Define and evolve HP Sure Start architecture and related firmware resilience capabilities, including hardware-enforced firmware authenticity, recovery, update, and protection mechanisms. Drive secure BIOS and firmware configuration management strategies, including HP Sure Admin ecosystem capabilities, key management, zero-touch provision

Principal Embedded Firmware and Software Engineer Description - We are seeking a Principal Embedded Firmware & Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and debugging of embedded software and firmware for computer systems. In this role, you will combine deep, hands-on engineering expertise with system-level technical leadership to ensure seamless integration between software and hardware components, delivering reliable and efficient system performance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, software developers, QA, and product managers to bring high-quality products to market. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the architecture, development, security, integration, debugging, validation, and deployment of embedded firmware and software including BIOS/UEFI, EFI applications and drivers, embedded controllers, and RTOS-based systems. Analyze hardware and system architectures to define firmware requirements, dependencies, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches. Troubleshoot and resolve firmware issues by designing and implementing enhancements, updates, and programming changes across firmware subsystems. Define and drive firmware integration, verification, and validation strategies, including automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration . Develop and improve engineering tools and automation using Python and other appropriate technologies for development, debugging, testing, analysis, and validation. Advance CI/CD and DevSecOps practices for embedded development to improve engineering velocity, quality, traceability, and release confidence. Evaluate and apply AI-assisted software development and engineering tools where they can improve developer productivity,

Job Details: Job Description: Intel is shaping the future of technology to help create a better future for the entire world. Our work in pushing forward fields like AI, analytics, and cloud-to-edge technology is at the heart of countless innovations. With a career at Intel, you'll have the opportunity to use technology to power major breakthroughs and create enhancements that improve our everyday quality of life. Join us and help make the future more wonderful for everyone. Want to learn more? Visit our YouTube Channel or the link below. Life at Intel The Role and Impact As a SoC Power Thermal Performance Validation and Optimization Engineer, you will play an essential role in ensuring Intel's products achieve optimal power, thermal, and performance benchmarks at the system-on-chip (SoC) level. In this position, you will develop and execute validation methodologies, optimize hardware/software solutions, and perform SoC-level debugging to address power, thermal, and performance challenges. Your contribution will directly impact Intel's ability to deliver competitive, high-performing products to market. Business Group This role is part of Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), which focuses on designing innovative solutions to power the next generation of computing platforms for data centers. As a member of the PTP PreSi Correlation Solution team, you will contribute to shaping the development and validation processes for cutting-edge technologies, ensuring Intel meets and exceeds industry standards for performance and efficiency. Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute SoC-level power, thermal, and performance validation and

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We are looking for an embedded engineer to help build firmware and associated modeling software for OpenAI’s in house AI accelerator. This role involves designing and developing drivers and functional models for a large array of HW components, writing high throughput and low latency firmware code, investigating bring-up and production issues. Responsibilities Design and implement drivers for hardware peripherals, including those related to AI chips. Design and implement functional software models to simulate SoC uncore logic and enable FW testing against the model Design and implement low-latency and high throughput embedded SW to manage HW resources. Work with adjacent software and hardware teams to implement requirements, debug issues and shape future generations of the hardware. Collaborate with vendors to integrate their technologies within our systems. Bring up and debug firmware/driver on new platforms. Come up with processes and debug issues raised in the field. Set up monitoring, integration testing and diagnostics tools. Qualifications 5+ years of experience working in embedded SW space. Ability to thrive in ambiguity and learn new technologies. Strong programming skills in C/C++ and/or Rust. Experience developing high throughput, low latency and multi-threaded code. Experience working with real time operating systems (RTOS). Experience developing hardware drivers and working with hardware Experience with HW/SW co-design Knowledge of common embedded pr