Sr. Firmware Engineer

Job Req ID: 29276

About Supermicro

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Job Summary

We are seeking a fulltime Staff Firmware Engineer to assist in the development of embedded products. The candidate must be able to lead other engineers in the team, work closely with other teams to achieve the goal. The qualified individual will be responsible for problem solving, bug fixing, task definitions, assignments and schedules for the design among priorities.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, porting, developing, debugging, and maintaining BMC/IPMI related software and firmware for server systems.
• Work closely with software and hardware teams to develop and integrate embedded firmware solutions.
• Develop and maintain remote management interfaces including RESTful APIs, SNMP, HTML5 web interface, iKVM, and Virtual Media.
• Develop new features and enhancements for BMC firmware, including Redfish management functions and platform-specific capabilities.
• Implement and maintain platform monitoring and control functions for system components such as motherboard, backplane, M.2, U.2, NVMe, HDD, SAS controller, LAN add-on cards, OCP cards, and other system peripherals.
• The candidate must be highly motivated and able to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and team-oriented environment.
  
  

Qualifications

Candidates who meet at least one of the following requirements are preferred; additional qualifications are a plus.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering field with 5+ years of industry experience, or
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering field with 7+ years of industry experience.
  
  

Preferred Technical Skills

• Embedded or Linux development experience, including U-Boot, Linux Kernel, device drivers, and file systems.
• Familiarity with industry protocols and technologies such as:
  
  

IPMI, Redfish, SNMP, I2C, SPI, PMBus, IPMB, KCS, RGMII, HTTPS, LDAP, SMTP, NTP, MCTP, PCIe, USB, NVMe-MI, JSON, XML, and related management interfaces.

• Experience with ARM TrustZone or secure firmware development.
• Experience working with x86 server platforms (Intel or AMD).