Firmware Engineer BIOS​/UEFI

Firmware Engineer BIOS/UEFI

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.
• 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, microcontrollers, sensors, and platform-level components.
• Evaluate failure modes exposed during development, manufacturing, and field use; propose design or process improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Manages and expands relationships with internal and outsourced development partners on firmware design and development.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the firmware design organization.
• Mentors less-experienced software firmware engineers and help guide them to successful deliverables.

Firmware Architecture & Process Improvements

• Participate in firmware architecture reviews, ensuring quality and reliability considerations are incorporated into design (aligned with internal FW Architecture Review practices).
• Advocate and enforce coding standards, testability guidelines, and quality processes across firmware teams.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, refactoring, or architectural improvements to enhance stability and resilience.
• Collaborate with FW architects on quality initiatives (e.g., error-code frameworks, BCR processes, customer-centric diagnostics).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with hardware engineers, firmware developers, QA, sustaining teams, ODM partners, and integration teams.
• Provide quality feedback in design reviews, program meetings, and cross-partner syncs.
• Support bring-up, validation, platform qualification, and key program milestones.
• Mentor engineers on debugging techniques, quality practices, and reliability analysis.

Risk Management & Compliance

• Ensure firmware processes comply with internal governance, standards, and security guidelines.
• Identify risks early and drive mitigation plans.
• Support audits, internal reviews, and quality assessments.

Education & Experience Recommended

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 7-10 years of experience in embedded firmware, quality engineering, hardware/firmware debugging, or reliability engineering.
• Background in embedded systems, microcontrollers, low-level debugging, and system architecture.

• Strong understanding of embedded firmware development (C/C++), driver development, bootloaders, EC/BIOS/UEFI fundamentals.
• Proficiency in test automation, scripting (Python, Perl, Power Shell, etc.), and testing tools.
• Ability to analyze failures across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.
• Experience with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other debug tools.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, version…