BIOS UEFI and Coreboot

4-6 years of experience in the x86 BIOS/UEFI FSP/coreboot development

Experience with x86 CPU/APU architectures and associated compilation tools

Expert in C language

Experience with platform bring-up

BIOS – UEFI and Coreboot JD :

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

Additional Skillset :

• 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 developer’s perspective.
• Good understanding of UEFI BIOS Boot flow.
• Basic understanding of Linux Kernel like software development concepts (Kconfig).