Lead BIOS Design Engineer

Overview

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are a trusted partner for the world s top brands, offering engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a global network, Jabil delivers scalable and customized solutions while pursuing sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and support diverse communities.

The BIOS Developer is responsible for leading BIOS/UEFI development and platform integration activities across complex hardware programs. This role provides technical ownership for firmware features, drives debugging and performance optimization, and ensures BIOS readiness for validation, manufacturing, and customer delivery.

• Lead BIOS/UEFI firmware development, subsystem enablement, and integration across one or more product platforms.
• Define implementation approaches for BIOS features and ensure alignment to platform architecture, system requirements, and release plans.
• Drive investigation and resolution of complex firmware and system issues discovered during bring-up, validation, or customer escalation.
• Lead BIOS validation readiness, tuning, and optimization activities to improve platform stability, functionality, and performance.
• Partner with Electrical, BMC, Systems, Validation, and other engineering teams to resolve cross-domain issues and align release decisions.
• Guide firmware quality practices including issue tracking, regression coverage, code review support, and release discipline.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to standard methods, reusable code approaches, and technical capability building within the firmware team.
• Provide clear communication of technical direction, tradeoffs, milestone health, and open risks to leadership and key stakeholders.

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field;
  Master’s degree preferred. 5–10 years of relevant experience in BIOS, UEFI, embedded firmware, or low-level platform software development.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Strong expertise in firmware architecture, BIOS bring-up, platform initialization, and issue debugging. Experience with server, storage, networking, or x86-based compute platforms. Ability to lead cross-functional technical issue resolution involving firmware, hardware, and validation teams. Strong coding, debugging, and technical communication capability. Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution with limited oversight.

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.