Senior BIOS/UEFT Engineer

Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development

Huntsville, AL

The Company

Join a leader in rugged embedded computing solutions supporting demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications.

This is an opportunity to join the Huntsville engineering organization as the site's key BIOS/UEFI specialist, working closely with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers on next-generation embedded computing products.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

You will work on new product development, starting with an AMI/Intel reference BIOS and customizing it for newly designed hardware. You will have meaningful ownership of how the BIOS is developed and will be involved from initial board bring-up through a working product.

What Makes This Role Different

- Become the primary BIOS/UEFI technical specialist in the Huntsville organization.

- Work directly with hardware and firmware engineers during new board bring-up.

- Customize and develop BIOS for new embedded computing platforms rather than simply maintaining legacy code.

- Start with AMI BIOS / Intel reference BIOS and adapt it to hardware.

- Work at the fundamental platform level where hardware, firmware, BIOS, and operating systems come together.

- Have significant technical ownership and latitude in BIOS development.

- Solve challenging hardware-versus-firmware issues alongside engineers from multiple disciplines.

- Take products from early hardware/BIOS bring-up toward production.

The hiring team is specifically looking for someone who has personally developed UEFI BIOS and participated in board bring-up on hardware running the BIOS they developed.

They Vale and Appreciate Their Employees

The team is looking for an engineer who brings:

- Strong technical ownership and engineering judgment.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

- Enthusiasm for solving difficult technical problems.

- The ability to explain technical issues clearly to engineers from different disciplines.

- A hands-on approach to hardware/firmware debugging.

- The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with hardware, FPGA, IPMC, and software engineers.

Your Role with the Company -New Product Development

As a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer, you will develop and customize BIOS for new products that are rugged embedded computing platforms. You will work from an AMI/Intel reference BIOS, adapt it to new hardware, and support BIOS bring-up alongside the hardware and firmware teams.

Your work will include:

- Developing and customizing UEFI BIOS for new products.

- Performing BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards.

- Debugging hardware/firmware issues during initial board startup.

- Working with hardware, FPGA, and other firmware engineers to validate system functionality.

- Supporting interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA, and other board-level functionality.

- Taking BIOS development from initial bring-up through production.

Background Profile

Must Have

- 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience. (will consider less for exceptional background)

- Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience is required rather than legacy BIOS exposure alone.

- Demonstrated experience personally developing BIOS, not simply working with systems that use BIOS.

- Experience with BIOS bring-up on newly designed hardware.

- Experience where the candidate's BIOS actually ran on the board they helped bring up.

- Strong working proficiency in C.

- Ability to perform low-level programming involving registers, memory, and peripherals.

- Experience customizing or porting BIOS to new hardware.

- Strong understanding of hardware/firmware interaction.

- Experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware integration issues during board bring-up.

- Ability to work directly with hardware engineers and other engineering disciplines.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Willingness and ability to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama.

Core BIOS / UEFI Background

- Hands-on UEFI BIOS development.

- BIOS customization for new hardware.

- Experience with Intel reference BIOS is highly valuable.

- Experience with Intel/x86/x86-64 platforms.

- Understanding of computer architecture and platform initialization.

Desired

- AMI BIOS experience

- Phoenix BIOS experience.

- Secure Boot / Trusted Boot.

- Intel Core i7 experience.

- AMD processor / Ryzen UEFI experience.

- ARM, NXP/Freescale, or PowerPC experience.

- Built-In Test (BIT).

- IPMI.

- Embedded Linux.

- Xilinx SDK.

- NXP K21.

- U-Boot.

- Slim Bootloader.

- RTOS experience.

- GCC and cross-compilers.

- Rugged embedded computing.

- VPX / OpenVPX.

- VME.

- CompactPCI.

- Defense/aerospace experience.

- DO-178B/C.

- Git or Perforce.

- Klocwork/static analysis.

- Jenkins/continuous integration.

- JIRA and Confluence.

- Agile/Scrum development environments.

- Experience supporting BIOS through product release, manufacturing, or sustaining activities.

Additional Job Details

- Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000

- Location: Huntsville, AL

- Type of Role: Full-time, Direct Hire

- Travel Required: Minimal

- Relocation Assistance: Yes

- Visa Sponsorship: U.S. Citizen, Green Card