# Hardware Systems Engineer, Hardware Tools / Firmware

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €54,000 - 68,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cloudflare's Hardware Team is hiring a Systems Engineer, with a firmware focus, in the U.S. to help deliver the Hardware team's security goals and projects in 2027 & beyond.

## Responsibilities

- Maintain and improve OpenBMC firmware Design and develop features based on various industry standards such as OCP and DMTF Standards

- Engage with vendors & guide them through requirements

- Design solutions for observability and configurations appropriate for various server subsystems e.g. DIMMs, NICs etc.

- Partner with teams internally to understand HW security requirements and build a set of features / roadmap for Cloudflare

- Contribute to building/improving the HW provisioning in HW Lab, especially steps related to BIOS, FW, settings, and HW tools

- Develop and review requirements/code/tests/design documents

- Own some of the team's Future FW or HW security tasks / goals and deliver them on time with high quality

- Build simple, well-defined plans that adapt without accruing additional complexity

- Act as domain expert in server hardware; collaborate with other teams on defining new server requirements, explain new technologies, and liaise between vendor & internal customers

## Requirements

- Experience developing firmware and/or embedded SW

- Knowledgeable about servers, enterprise systems, and hardware interfaces

- Understanding of hardware security for servers

- Familiarity with Redfish standards

- Curious and eager to learn

- Great communication, collaboration, and detail-oriented

- Can build firmwares from open source codes, build demos & POCs, setup systems & run synthetic tests, and debug complex firmware problems

- Can create python/bash scripts and edit firmware/driver source code

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Yocto or Buildroot

- Experience with UEFI development

## Compensation

- For Lisbon based hires: Estimated annual salary of €54,000 - 68,000

- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan

## Benefits

- Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance

- Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan

- Time Off: Flexible paid time off, Leave programs

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## Skills

### Required
- OpenBMC
- OCP
- DMTF
- Redfish
- Python
- Bash
- firmware development
- embedded systems
- server hardware
- hardware security

### Nice to have
- Yocto
- Buildroot
- UEFI development

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