Firmware Engineering Manager

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Core Weave is building a new Firmware Engineering team focused on developing and maintaining BMC and BIOS firmware for our server infrastructure. As a Firmware Engineering Manager, you will help establish and lead this team, supporting firmware engineers as they build reliable, scalable, and production‑ready firmware for our data center platforms.

Reporting to a Senior Director of Compute Architecture, you will combine people leadership with technical guidance, helping shape team processes, execution, and culture while partnering closely with hardware, platform, and operations teams.

• Lead & support the team – manage, mentor, and coach a small team of firmware engineers through regular 1‑on‑1s, goal‑setting, and feedback, fostering a collaborative and psychologically safe environment.
• Execution & delivery – help plan and track firmware development work, ensuring timely delivery of features, bug fixes, and platform enablement across multiple hardware programs.
• Technical guidance – participate in design discussions and reviews, helping the team make sound technical decisions around embedded firmware, BMC architectures, and system integration.
• Cross‑functional collaboration – work closely Hardware Engineering and Systems Engineering teams to ensure firmware aligns with hardware requirements and production needs.
• Quality & reliability – support best practices around testing, validation, debugging, and documentation to ensure firmware reliability in large‑scale production environments.
• Process building – help establish lightweight development processes, documentation standards, and tooling appropriate for a growing firmware organization.
• Grow the team – partner with recruiting and senior leadership to interview and onboard new firmware engineers as the team scales.
• Communicate & align – provide clear status updates, surface risks early, and communicate trade‑offs and progress to stakeholders and leadership.

You are an emerging engineering leader who enjoys supporting and growing engineers while staying close to the technical work. You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity, building new processes, and learning alongside your team in a fast‑paced environment.

• 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role (engineering manager, tech lead with people management responsibilities, or similar).
• Prior hands‑on experience as a firmware or embedded systems engineer.
• Working knowledge of embedded firmware development using C/C++ in Linux‑based environments.
• Familiarity with BMC firmware stacks such as OpenBMC and/or AMI MegaRAC/SPX.
• Understanding of hardware interfaces and system‑level concepts (e.g., I2C, SPI, UART, board bring‑up).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across hardware and software teams.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and building inclusive, high‑performing teams.

• Experience supporting firmware development for data center or server‑class hardware.
• Familiarity with Redfish, IPMI, or other data center management protocols.
• Exposure to firmware testing, validation, and production bring‑up processes.
• Experience helping establish engineering processes in a new or growing team.
• Background in fast‑growing or hardware‑software integrated environments.

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