Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.
What youll do:
Responsibilities:
- Develops Test Strategy for organization-wide architectures and methodologies for Firmware design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
- Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, tools for alignment with technology roadmap and business value.
- Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
- Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
- Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members to set an example of software/firmware systems design and development innovation and excellence.
- Overall, this role will be responsible for defining test strategy, validation methodologies, providing automation inputs, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and guaranteeing the quality, reliability, and security of enterprise-class server firmware.
- Work with various teams across the product lifecycle ranging from Hardware, IO, BIOS and BMC and test partners who use the platform FW and HW to ensure that products are delivered with high quality.
What you need to bring:
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- Typically, 12+ years experience in system firmware/BIOS/BMC validation.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience in reviewing and contributing to designing and developing software systems design tools and languages.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
- Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
- Evaluating and selecting forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
- History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English.
- Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.
- Ability to come up with test strategy and validation architecture for BMC, BIOS, and related system firmware across server platforms. Align validation plans with industry standards (DMTF, Redfish, PLDM, SPDM, UEFI, PCIe, ACPI, OCP, OpenBMC, TPM, Root of trust).
- Establish comprehensive validation methodologies covering functional, regression, stress, performance, compliance, security, and interoperability testing.
- Ability to collaborate with firmware architects, hardware engineers, system validation, QA (including design verification), and cloud/software teams to ensure holistic coverage.
- Strong debugging and triaging skills: Drive debug, root cause analysis, and issue triage across BMC/BIOS domains.
- Deep expertise in Server BMC (IPMI, Redfish, PLDM, SPDM, MCTP, OEM extensions) and BIOS/UEFI (ACPI, PCIe, SMBIOS, Secure Boot, power/thermal management) and a good understanding of the BIOS BMC interface
- Ability to define long-term validation roadmap for next-gen architectures (CXL, DPU, GPU servers, liquid cooling, AI/ML platforms).
- Experience with enterprise datacenter/server platforms
- Ability to work in an agile and fast paced environment and adapt to changes quickly.
