BIOS/UEFI Developer

Description :

Mandatory Skills :

- 8-15 years of experience in the x86 BIOS/UEFI development

- Experience with x86 CPU/APU architectures and associated compilation tools

- Expert in C language

- Familiar with at least one BIOS code base (AMI, Insyde, Phoenix BIOS or opensource like coreboot and EDKII)

- Experience with platform bring-up BIOS preparation.

- Expert in various boot stages(SEC, PEI, DXE, BDS), Pcds, UPDs, memory map, SPIROM, FSP, devicetree concept, BIOS handoff to OS bootloader,

- Should be able to understand components with which BIOS interacts like EC module, BMC, security processor, Power management firmware and memory training firmware.

- Working experience of industry standard protocols like I2c, PCIe, SPI, eSPI, ACPI, SMM, IPMI, UEFI.

- Hands on experience with hardware debugging tools like AMD HDT, BIOSDebugger, ITP, Arium, etc.

- Understanding of coreboot & FSP, should have working experience with FSP source code.

- Experience of working with different coreboot payloads like edk2, SeaBios, U-Boot, linuxboot, Tianocore etc.

- Experience of working on UEFI bootloader or UEFI applications mainly involved in UEFI based storage protocols AHCI, SATA, NVMe.

- Will be good if have any experience in Android UEFI based Bootloader for x86.

- Ability to read platform Hardware and Processor specifications to understand the platform/mainboard porting requirements.

- Good understanding of UEFI framework concepts and Storage protocols.

- Exposure to pre-silicon BIOS development in a simulation/emulation environment.

- Exposure to Emulation environments like Synopsis-Zebu-ZS5/Cadence-Palladium/Siemen-Veloce

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 industry standard protocols like SATA, NVMe, AHCI, PCIe, SPI, eSPI, IPMI etc.

- Good understanding of specifications like ACPI, SMM.

- Good understanding of x86-64 architecture from BIOS developers perspective.

- Good understanding of UEFI BIOS Boot flow.

Academic credentials :

- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering from reputed college

- Masters degree from reputed university is a big plus