Senior Firmware Engineer UEFI BIOS Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 67913-en-us)

Description

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THE ROLE:

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Lead / Senior Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD's product, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry leading technologies to market. The Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.  

THE PERSON:  

As a Systems Design Engineer, you will drive balanced, scalable, and automated solutions. In this high visibility position, your software systems engineering expertise will be necessary towards product development, definition, and root cause resolution. A successful candidate will have solid software methodologies, firmware design expertise, deep technical knowledge and organizational skills. The candidate will interact across multiple teams to ensure on schedule defect-free system firmware, push and reduce AMD's time to market. A candidate must possess technical proficiency and interpersonal confidence to represent design ideas to complex problems and innovative solutions with other developers as well as with non-firmware focused silicon teams. AMD's environment is fast paced, results oriented and built upon a legion of forward-thinking people with a passion for winning technology!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop UEFI code to support bug fixes, features and customizations
• Communicate effectively the BIOS development and debug status to key internal/external partners
• Work closely with internal UEFI and silicon IP owners for problem analysis and resolution
• Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
• Work with worldwide engineering teams on hardware and firmware issues during board design, work through board bring up, feature enablement, bug triage/resolution and product sustaining support
• Work directly with OEMs collecting product requirements, feature enablement, and debug investigations
• Develop and drive standard methodologies within the BIOS development team
• Produce internal documentation for feature development and testing on assigned projects
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the customer BIOS development processes

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Expert C programming experience, with strong debugging skills in relation to methodology and analytical skills
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy 
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details 
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion 
• Low-level hardware experience
• Expert in UEFI and x86 architecture required, (a plus if experienced in AMD x86)
• Knowledge in ACPI architecture and coding
• Knowledge of hardware interfaces (PCIe, SPI, I2C , DDR, USB SATA) encouraged
• Knowledge of ARM microcontrollers
• Knowledge of software development process methodology
• Knowledge of industry standard initiatives such as (UEFI, ACPI, SMBIOS, PCIe) encouraged
• Solid understanding of different flavors of Git source version control
• Strong Python scripting experience preferred
• Excellent communication skills: verbal, written and interpersonal while having the ability to grow with a dynamic and fast-paced work environment with quick results and delivery of engineering solutions.
• 5+ years experience UEFI BIOS development

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering 

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