Firmware Engineer 4

Duties of Position: (Include specific duties and responsibilities)
The person should perform the following in his role:

- Architect Open BMC Solutions: Lead the design and implementation of Open-BMC distributions tailored for hyper scale hardware, including hardware abstraction layers

and D-Bus interfaces.

- Hyper scale Collaboration: Partner with Hardware and Systems teams to define firmware requirements for OCP (Open Compute Project) compliant servers and storage

enclosures.

- Modern CI/CD Integration: Drive automated testing and continuous integration workflows for firmware, ensuring high-velocity deployments without sacrificing stability.
- Security & Root of Trust: Implement and maintain platform security features, including Secure Boot and hardware Root of Trust (RoT) integration.
- Full-Stack Ownership: Manage firmware development from low-level boot loaders (U-Boot) to high-level management APIs (Redfish/gRPC).
- Production Support: Provide expert-level debugging for critical issues identified in hyper scale data centres, utilizing remote telemetry and crash dump analysis.
- Participate in firmware code development and code review process
- Provide weekly status updates to key stake-holders on development status

Qualifications Required: (Education, experience, skills, etc. Please be specific)
BS/MS/BE/BTech or ME/MTech in EE, CS, or CE with 8 to 12 years of relevant firmware experience.





- Sound knowledge of Embedded SW in C, C++, Real Time OS. Strong debugging skills, working with new/existing, complex code base
- Embedded programming experience for multi-thread architectures involving multiple processes, Board bring up
- Cloud-Scale Tooling: Experience with Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, and containerization (Docker) for firmware build environments.
- Hardware Bring-up: Experience with Aspeed AST2500/AST2600 (the industry- standard BMC chips) and low-level debugging using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic

analyzers.

- BMC rebranding, BIOS configuration, integration, Knowledge in FPGA Linux Socket programming and IPC, Shell scripting
- Knowledge and development experience in Web scripting, test Automation
- Hyperscale Experience: Proven track record of shipping firmware for Hyper-scalar data centre products (AWS, Azure, Meta, or Tier 1 OEMs).
- Open-Source: Solid history of working with Open-BMC; experience replacing proprietary stacks (AMI, Avocent) with open-source alternatives is highly preferred.
- Server Architecture: Comprehensive understanding of modern server topology, including CPUs (Intel/AMD), GPUs, and NVMe storage.
- Security Expertise: Experience implementing Cerberus, Titan, or similar hardware security protocols.
- Communication: Ability to represent the company in industry forums (OCP) and collaborate with geographically distributed open-source contributors.

📌 Senior Firmware Engineer (India)
🏢 Sanmina
📍 India