Principal SW Engineer FirmwareThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
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 diverse 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:
High Performance Computing, AI and Labs is a critical element of HPE. We are focused on delivering innovative solutions that accelerate our customers’ digital transformation, enabling them to tackle their complex, and data-intensive workloads. Combining deep expertise and the development of the world’s most cutting-edge, high-performance supercomputers, is defining the next era of computing delivering valuable insight & innovation. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.
What you’ll do:
- Design and implement BMC Core Infrastructure and Features for HPE Servers.
- Experience bringing up BMC firmware, analyzing performance, and coding various management features.
- Designs enhancements, updates, and programming changes for portions and subsystems of firmware,embedded code,I2C, SPI drivers, BMC applications and BIOS/UEFI.
- Preparation of design documents and quality assurance test plans
- Providing solutions for CPU, GPU, DIMM, SSDs, NICs, IB, PSU, BMC, FPGA, CPLD, and other errors and statistics.
- Development of performance-optimized active monitoring BMC solutions based on DMTF Standards, including MCTP, Redfish, SPDM, and PLDM.
- Maintaining detailed unit test case reports and implementing code instrumentation and code coverage for each implemented module, as well as writing and automating unit tests.
- Analyzing static code, code coverage, and CPU load to provide software quality reports.
- Interfacing with the security team to ensure developed code is in line with product security goals, and with the hardware teams to influence hardware design and review the hardware architecture and schematics.
- Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
- 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.
- Work continuously with Product Management to refine, prioritize and elaborate new requirements.
- Provides guidance and mentoring to Architects on software systems design and development innovation and excellence.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or Equivalent.
- Typically 10+ years experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Strong programming experience in C and C++
- Linux kernel and U-Boot device tree expertise with hands-on experience in I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, Mailbox, etc.
- Knowledge of OSB or In-Band System Management standards (IPMI, KCS, PMBus, NVMe, etc.)
- Ability to comprehend REST architecture style and especially JSON over HTTPS with OAuth.
- A thorough understanding of Linux user-space and system programming using C/C++, Bash, Python, Go, etc.
- Experience in building and deploying Linux images, as well as various Linux distributions and packages.
- Communication skills, a strict work ethic, a strong sense of teamwork, a commitment to quality work, and an excellent work ethic are all essential. You are a self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to complicated problems.
- Expertise in multiple firmware design tools and languages.
- Experience in overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
- Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into the overall architecture.
- Experience in openBMC or Yocto-based Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC).
- Working knowledge of debugging tools like gdb, kdb, and JTAG debuggers.
- Knowledge of BMC Firmware development in X86 or ARM platform platforms, including BMC-BIOS communication, thermal management, power management, firmware updates, device monitoring, and firmware security.
Additional Skills:
Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}
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.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse 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.
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Job:
Engineering
Job Level:
TCP_05
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