Senior Staff Engineer, Software ; Austin

11 - Senior Staff Engineer, Software 1 (Austin)

Date: Oct 15, 2025

Location: Merrimack, TX, US

Functional Area: Engineering

Career Stream: Design - Software Engineering

Job Code: SSE-ENG-DSE

Job Level: Level 11

IC/MGR: Individual Contributor

Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

The role will include the below responsibilities

• Develop BMC/BIOS firmware in the Linux environment
• Develop Diagnostic firmware for manufacturing tests and for extended testing at the assembly and deployment locations
• Develop secure firmware update to all programmable components (BIOS, EEPROM, CPLD, FPGA etc.).
• Working knowledge with main elements of CPU, DPU, memory, NICs, board monitoring elements is a must
• Lead the firmware team technically to develop product independent, architecturally scalable and reusable firmware
• Participate and lead technical discussions, review other team members artifacts, code etc
• Good communication to articulate requirements and design to large and diverse audience through written documents like architecture specifications

• Board bringup and validation of all low-level interactions with hardware
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

• Design and implement features for verification of trusted software like secure boot
• Stay up-to-date on security best practices and vulnerability remediation
• Work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with engineers and peer functional leads from different disciplines to innovate solutions, triage issues and speed execution
• Work with product line management, customers and sales teams to understand requirements

• Mentor and coach team members on the technical skills and approaches to solve problems.
• Present innovation and value addition of the software in technical forums and customer interactions
• Deeper knowledge and experience in programming in C,C++ or other low level programming languages.
• Knowledge and understanding of open source, cross platform development.
• Knowledge and understanding of the embedded and Linux device driver development.
• Ability to technically lead several projects simultaneously and coordinate multiple, changing priorities.
• Knowledge on the data center/cloud deployments from the networking , compute , storage infrastructure perspective

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

• 12 to 18 years

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

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