Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer – New Product Development

Schedule: Full-time, on-site |Compensation:$150,000 - $190,000 Overview An established provider of rugged embedded computing solutions for demanding military, aerospace, industrial, and high-reliability applications is seeking a Senior BIOS / UEFI Engineer to join its Huntsville engineering organization. This role serves as the site's key BIOS/UEFI specialist, working closely with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers on new product development from initial board bring-up through production.

What you'll do: Develop and customize UEFI BIOS for new rugged embedded computing products, starting from an AMI BIOS / Intel reference BIOS and adapting it to newly designed hardware Perform BIOS bring-up on newly designed boards Debug hardware/firmware issues during initial board startup Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, and other firmware engineers to validate system functionality Support interfaces such as USB, PCI Express, SATA, and other board-level functionality Carry BIOS development from initial bring-up through production Required qualifications 5+ years of hands-on BIOS development experience (less may be considered for an exceptional background)Strong experience developing UEFI BIOS; modern UEFI experience required rather than legacy BIOS exposure alone Demonstrated experience personally developing BIOS, not simply working with systems that use BIOSExperience with BIOS bring-up on newly designed hardware, where the candidate's BIOS actually ran on the board they helped bring up Strong working proficiency in CAbility 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 Hands-on UEFI BIOS development experienceBIOS customization for new hardware Experience with Intel/x 86/x 86-64 platforms Understanding of computer architecture and platform initializationU.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (visa sponsorship not available)

Preferred qualifications: Experience with Intel reference BIOS is highly valuableAMI BIOS experience Phoenix BIOS experience Secure Boot / Trusted Boot experience Intel Core i 7 experienceAMD processor / Ryzen UEFI experienceARM, NXP/Freescale, or PowerPC experience Built-In Test (BIT) experienceIPMI experience Embedded Linux experience Xilinx SDK experienceNXP K21 experienceU-Boot experience Slim Bootloader experienceRTOS experienceGCC and cross-compiler experience Rugged embedded computing experienceVPX / OpenVPX experienceVME experience CompactPCI experience Defense/aerospace experienceDO-178B/C experience Git or Perforce experience Klocwork/static analysis experience Jenkins/continuous integration experienceJIRA and Confluence experience Agile/Scrum development experience Experience supporting BIOS through product release, manufacturing, or sustaining activities

Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000 Full-time, direct hire position Minimal travel required Relocation assistance provided Why this role This position offers significant technical ownership of BIOS development on new embedded computing platforms, working at the level where hardware, firmware, BIOS, and operating systems intersect, with involvement from early board bring-up through production.