Firmware Developer

Role & responsibilities

• 5-10 years of experience in the x86 coreboot/FSP/BIOS development

• Experience with x86 CPU/APU architectures and associated compilation tools

• Expert in C language

• Experience with platform bring-up Familiar with coreboot boot stages, UPDs, memory map, FSP, devicetree concept, payloads to OS bootloader handoff
• Working experience of industry standard protocols like PCIe, SPI, eSPI, ACPI, SMM
• Experience on working with opensource coreboot project & mainboard related porting with GPIO, PCIe lanes, board fmd configs and board bring-up experience on customer platforms. Experience on working with Intel FSP package source code and understanding of coreboot & FSP boot flow Understanding of coreboot & FSP build tools and build processes
• Experience of working with different coreboot payloads like edk2, SeaBios, Tianocore etc Ability to read platform Hardware and Processor specifications to understand the coreboot mainboard porting required
• Good understanding of UEFI framework concepts to port UEFI code to FSP

Preferred candidate profile

• Working knowledge of Git for code reviews, source code management, and BIOS releases to QA.

• Ability to juggle tasks and respond to different teams for various requests for custom BIOS requirements.

• Good understanding of x86-64 architecture from BIOS developers perspective.

• Good understanding of UEFI BIOS Boot flow.

• Basic understanding of Linux Kernel like software development concepts (Kconfig).