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Cisco Senior Firmware Engineer UEFI BIOS Development United States, Oregon, Hillsboro 435331736
26.06.2024
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Who You Are
In this highly visible role as Senior Firmware Engineer, you will pursue UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) development for UCS compute platforms. You will take ownership of overall platform BIOS development and specific features throughout the platform lifecycle. Interact with silicon partners to understand the next generation processor/platform architecture, identify the areas of concern, and collaborate to address them. Closely work with IBV BIOS Vendor to resolve the core BIOS and x86 processor vendors’ reference code issues and deliver high-quality BIOS for next generation of UCS platforms. Collaborate with various UCS cross-functional teams such as hardware, network, storage, BMC, management software, manufacturing, QA, and OS teams throughout the platform lifecycle. Build design/functional specifications for the proprietary BIOS features. Solve and drive the platform and BIOS issues to closure.
What You'll Do
You will work with the Computing Systems Product Group that helps to enable the fully unified data center through the Unified Computing Systems architecture. We architect and build the next generation unified computing systems that include compute, storage, network, virtualization, and management. You will be a part of the dynamic and passionate team that designs, implements, and delivers industry leading computing system products and work on exciting and most ambitious projects.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8 years of professional experience in software development, network engineering or related field.
- 5+ years professional experience in System BIOS/UEFI development for server platforms.
- Experience with Intel and/or AMD platform architecture.
- Experience with server platform design and architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with board bring-up and validation in the lab
- Good understanding of CPU architecture, DDR4, UPI, PCIe, NVMe, ACPI, RAS, Power Management, TPM/TXT, and EDKII, and Secure boot
- Good knowledge of OS internals and how BIOS/UEFI interacts with OS
- Experience debugging with hardware tools such as JTAG debuggers, Intel ITP, AMD HDT, and analyzers
- Familiar with UEFI driver development and various UEFI protocols is a plus
- Familiar with BMC and out of band management interfaces/protocols such as PECI, redfish, and IPMI is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams
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