# Firmware Engineer BIOS/UEFI

**Company**: HP Inc.
**Location**: Spring, Texas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Firmware Engineer is responsible for ensuring that embedded firmware meets the highest standards of quality, robustness, and long-term reliability.

The role works closely with firmware developers, hardware engineers, architecture teams, QA, and cross-functional partners to define quality metrics, validate system behavior, improve defect detection, and build processes that prevent regressions.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive firmware test plans, including functional, regression, stress, corner-case, and long-duration reliability tests.

- Evaluate the firmware architecture, design, and development, as well as testing methodologies to create a strategy and implement methods to bring increased quality and reliability to the firmware.

- Review firmware code and test plans, including functional, regression, stress, corner-case, and long-duration reliability tests.

- Perform root-cause analysis for firmware defects, drive containment, corrective actions, and verification of fixes.

- Create and manage quality dashboards, KPIs, failure rates, and reliability metrics.

- Evaluate failure modes exposed during design, development, manufacturing, and field use; propose design or process improvements to prevent recurrence.

- Work with product architects, firmware teams, product managers, and provide critical guidance, system-level debugging, and troubleshooting to various teams, as a Subject Matter Expert.

- Review and evaluate designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provide tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.

- Create and manage quality dashboards, KPIs, failure rates, and reliability metrics. Validate firmware integration with hardware, BIOS/UEFI, EC, microcontrollers, sensors, and platform-level components.

- Manage and expand relationships with internal and outsourced development partners on firmware design and development.

- Drive innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the firmware design organization.

- Mentor less-experienced software firmware engineers and help guide them to successful deliverables.

**Firmware Architecture & Process Improvements**

- Participate in firmware architecture reviews, ensuring quality and reliability considerations are incorporated into design.

- Advocate and enforce coding standards, testability guidelines, and quality processes across firmware teams.

- Identify opportunities for simplification, refactoring, or architectural improvements to enhance stability and resilience.

- Collaborate with FW architects on quality initiatives.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

- Work closely with hardware engineers, firmware developers, QA, sustaining teams, ODM partners, and integration teams.

- Provide quality feedback in design reviews, program meetings, and cross-partner syncs.

- Support bring-up, validation, platform qualification, and key program milestones.

- Mentor engineers on debugging techniques, quality practices, and reliability analysis.

**Risk Management & Compliance**

- Ensure firmware processes comply with internal governance, standards, and security guidelines.

- Identify risks early and drive mitigation plans.

- Support audits, internal reviews, and quality assessments.

**Education & Experience**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

- 10+ years of experience in embedded firmware, quality engineering, hardware/firmware debugging, or reliability engineering.

- Background in embedded systems, microcontrollers, low-level debugging, and system architecture.

**Technical Skills**

- Strong understanding of embedded firmware development (C/C++), driver development, bootloaders, EC/BIOS/UEFI fundamentals.

- Proficiency in test automation, scripting (Python, Perl, PowerShell, etc.), and testing tools.

- Ability to analyze failures across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.

- Experience with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other debug tools.

- Familiarity with continuous integration, version control, and quality workflows.

The pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity.

**Benefits:**

- Health insurance

- Dental insurance

- Vision insurance

- Long-term/short-term disability insurance

- Employee assistance program

- Flexible spending account

- Life insurance

- Generous time off policies, including 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure, 11 paid holidays, and additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave.

## Skills

### Required
- embedded firmware development
- C/C++
- driver development
- bootloaders
- EC/BIOS/UEFI fundamentals
- test automation
- scripting
- testing tools
- JTAG/SWD
- oscilloscopes
- logic analyzers
- continuous integration
- version control
- quality workflows

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