Senior Principal Firmware Architect (UEFI/BIOS)

Senior Principal Firmware Architect (UEFI/BIOS)

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Overview: We are seeking a very senior UEFI engineer and architect to define, design, and drive the next generation of secure, high-performance firmware for our platform portfolio. You will own the end-to-end UEFI/BIOS firmware architecture, oversee DXE/PEI/SEC phases, drive secure boot and measured boot strategies, integration with iLO (our BMC solution) and collaborate with silicon, OS, security, iLO and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable, and industry-leading firmware solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the global UEFI/BIOS firmware architecture (including PEI/SEC/DXE, DXE core, SMM interaction, BDS, boot managers, and capsule-based updates).
• Define security architectures for Secure Boot, Measured Boot, TPM/Hardware Root of Trust, and firmware update mechanisms.
• Establish and maintain architecture for platform bring-up, initialization sequences, and power/performance optimization at boot.
• Lead integration with iLO and CPLD teams
• Lead integration with SoC boot flows, ACPI/DSDT, and platform-specific firmware components.

Technical leadership:

• Mentor and lead a team of firmware engineers; drive design reviews, code quality, and critical-path debugging.
• Define coding standards, security practices, testing strategies, and CI/CD integration for UEFI/EDK II-based projects.
• Collaborate with SOC vendors, Platform Engineering, hardware bring-up, OS vendors, security teams, and external partners.
• Provide executive-level status, risk assessment, and milestone planning to leadership.

Development and integration:

• Architect and implement the various modules for various phases in UEFI, Secure Boot steps, update mechanisms, and platform drivers.
• Guide USB/PCI/PCIe, storage, networking, and graphics initialization early in the boot path.
• Oversee UEFI driver development in EDK II, including custom protocols, ACPI interactions, and platform-specific services.
• Drive integration of cryptographic/authentication features, code signing, and anti-rollback protections.
• Optimize boot times and firmware size, profile performance, and power-on latency.

Security and compliance:

• Design and enforce secure boot and measured boot workflows, firmware integrity measurement, and remediation strategies.
• Implement tamper resistance, firmware attestation, and TPM integration as required.
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards (UEFI/BIOS specs, ACPI, Product Security Office requirements, and cybersecurity guidelines).

What you need to bring:

• 10-15 years of firmware engineering experience with significant experience in architect level roles
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in UEFI (PI/UEFI specifications) and platform initialization concepts (SEC, PEI, DXE, BDS, OS handoff).
• Strong C programming skills and good low-level systems knowledge (memory layout, MMU, cache, pointers).
• Experience with a popular UEFI implementation (EDK II/EDK, or vendor-specific stacks) including building, customizing and debugging firmware images.
• Solid understanding of hardware/firmware interfaces: chipset, SoC, CPU initialization, memory training, LPC/PCIe, USB, NVMe basics.
• BMC firmware experience

Nice to have :

• Deep ACPI knowledge (tables, methods, AML) and experience implementing or modifying ACPI for OS power/thermal/device management.
• SMM (System Management Mode) internals on x86 and secure handling of SMM code.
• Experience with advanced memory training and DRAM PHY tuning.

Additional Skills:

• Cloud Architectures
• Cross Domain Knowledge
• Design Thinking
• Development Fundamentals
• DevOps
• Distributed Computing
• Microservices Fluency
• Full Stack Development
• Security-First Mindset
• Solutions Design
• Testing & Automation
• User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.