About The Role
We are seeking a Principal OpenBMC Engineer to serve as the technical authority for BMC firmware across our server platform portfolio. In this role, you will define the BMC architecture and technical roadmap, drive critical design decisions across multiple programs, and provide deep technical leadership to engineers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders.
You will be expected to operate as the most senior individual contributor in the BMC domain — setting technical direction, resolving the hardest cross-stack problems, and representing the company's BMC engineering capability to customers, partners, and the upstream community.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the BMC firmware architecture across current and next-generation server platforms, including manageability stack, security, recovery flows, and lifecycle features.
- Define BMC technical strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with platform programs (e.g., Cicada TH5, Mantis TH6, and follow-on designs).
- Lead architectural reviews and make final technical calls on cross-cutting issues spanning BMC, BIOS, PRoT, SONiC, and hardware.
- Drive root-cause analysis on the most complex, escalated platform issues — across firmware, OS, hardware, and silicon boundaries.
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and quality bars for the BMC team.
- Mentor senior engineers and platform owners; grow the technical depth of the team through design reviews, code reviews, and structured knowledge transfer.
- Represent the company in customer technical reviews, ODM/OEM/silicon-vendor engagements, and (where applicable) the upstream OpenBMC community.
- Partner with engineering management on hiring, technical assessment, and organizational technical strategy.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of firmware/embedded systems experience, with 6+ years focused on BMC or server-class manageability firmware.
- Track record of shipping multiple server platforms end-to-end, with direct ownership of BMC architecture on at least one.
- Deep expertise in OpenBMC, including Yocto-based build systems, D-Bus architecture, phosphor stack, and platform porting.
- Expert-level C/C++ with strong software architecture, design pattern, and large-codebase debugging skills.
- Strong Linux internals knowledge — kernel subsystems, drivers, user-space services, and boot flow.
- Expert command of low-level hardware interfaces: I2C, PMBus, SPI, UART, JTAG, GPIO, eSPI.
- Authoritative knowledge of IPMI 2.0, DCMI 1.5, and Redfish — including SDR, SEL, FRU, SOL, IPMB, KCS, PEF, ME, NM, PECI, and Redfish resource modeling / event subsystem.
- Demonstrated ability to lead bring-up and architecture of BMC on custom server platforms from scratch.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
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