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 Value 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