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The Senior Firmware Engineer – CSP Engagements joins the CSP Engagements team to develop system software for Datacenter products like GB200. This role involves designing and developing firmware for manageability and observability of data center servers, including hardware bring-up, OOB firmware development, and hardware-software co-design. You will debug GPU firmware issues, power management, and thermal control problems while partnering with cloud service providers to deliver technical solutions. Required skills include deep expertise in data center server architectures, BMC solutions, and DMTF protocols such as Redfish, PLDM, and MCTP. You must possess expert-level C/C++ skills for resource-constrained embedded environments, RTOS, and low-level protocols like I2C, SPI, UART, and PCIe. The work focuses on solving technical problems for large-scale data center environments and high-performance computing systems.
What does a Firmware Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 38 postings across 10 companies.
Design and develop firmware solutions for data center server manageability and observability.
Participate in hardware bring-up activities and develop out-of-band firmware and protocol stacks.
Debug and troubleshoot GPU firmware issues, power management, performance, and thermal control problems.
Partner with Cloud Service Providers to co-develop, co-debug, and deliver technical features.
Perform advanced system debugging and root cause analysis for large-scale data center environments.
Optimize performance and implement RAS features including error handling and fault isolation.
Create technical documentation and integrated customer solutions in coordination with internal teams.
What we're looking for
BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
8-12 years of system software development experience.
Deep expertise in data center server architectures, HPC systems, and hardware-software co-design.
Deep expertise in embedded firmware, server management controllers, and hardware bring-up with a proven track record of shipping production BMC solutions.
Strong knowledge of DMTF protocols (Redfish, IPMI, PLDM, MCTP, SPDM), telemetry frameworks, and out-of-band management architectures.
Expert-level skills in C/C++ for resource-constrained embedded environments, RTOS, device drivers, and low-level protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, MCTP).
Experience with RAS including error handling, error injection, fault isolation, and system health monitoring.
Knowledge of cloud and cluster level deployment and management systems (preferred).
C
Rust
Firmware Development
SoC
Boot Sequencing
Power Management
Memory-Mapped Register Access
Device Tree
Linker
Build Systems
Emulation
ISO 26262
FMEA
Secure Boot
LLM-assisted workflows
C
C++
RTOS
FreeRTOS
Zephyr
VxWorks
ThreadX
Bare-metal
PCIe
DDR4
SerDes
Ethernet
SPI
UART
CAN
SoC
ASIC
Firmware Development
System Bring-up
Performance Tuning
C
C++
Rust
Firmware Development
Embedded Software
Driver Development
Linux
PCIe
I2C
eMMC
SPI
USB
UART
Memory Management
Multi-threading
Encryption Ciphers
Security Protocols
Penetration Testing
Board Support Package
Microarchitecture Design