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Principal Firmware Validation Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architecting, designing, and delivering Data Center class technologies across the entire platform, from early SoC/Platform Architecture concept to shipping final products.

Role type

Principal Firmware Validation Engineer

Builds

Data Center class technologies across the entire platform

Domain

Hardware/Software integration, Data Center infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Firmware architecture and development, HW/SW integration and validation, Platform Initialization, Manageability, Security, Motherboard, Drivers, UEFI, BMC, OS, Virtualization, Memory Management, RAS, End-to-end firmware development and debug, Test case and framework architecture, Coverage analysis, Team leadership and mentoring, Scripting (Python)

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Python, UEFI, BMC, RAS

Responsibilities

Drive, define, implement, and lead execution of FW integration and validation test plans; Perform firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development; Source, debug, and resolve HW & SW bugs; Architect and implement test cases and frameworks to establish coverage; Identify and address inefficiencies and gaps in testing and execution; Mentor, guide, and help peers and other team members.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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