Senior Bootloader and Hardware Enablement Engineer

Job Description

• Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team
• Work with multiple Tier 1 computer or silicon manufacturers and cloud providers on bootloader support
• Maintain and create upstream projects to support new hardware and firmware technologies as they relate to the Linux boot process
• Contribute to feature enhancements and bug fixes in projects including the Linux kernel, GRUB2, shim, and associated tools and toolchains
• Maintain packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora, including fixing bugs, rebasing to latest mainline releases, and backporting changes from upstream
• Contribute functional changes and bug fixes to address partner requests for enhanced functionality
• Develop test cases to ensure the correctness of patches
• Participate in partner roadmap sessions and map partner requirements to development plans
• Participate in industry standards bodies like the UEFI Forum, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), and Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
• Participate in industry conferences like Linux Plumbers Conference and UEFI Plugfest
What you will bring
• High proficiency in C
• Familiarity with the GNU toolchain, specifically gcc, binutils, linking, and loading
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting kernel code, platform firmware, e.g., BIOS, U-Boot, or EDK2, or bootloaders
• Familiarity with x86-64 or ARMv8 UEFI boot process
• Experience with common scripting languages and build systems, e.g., bash, Python, Make, or Meson
• Experience contributing to or leading open source, globally distributed projects
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
The following are considered a plus:
• Experience with contributing to low-level platform projects, e.g., fwupd, the Linux TPM2 stack, or shim
• Familiarity with ACPI or Device Tree hardware topology descriptions
• Familiarity with assembly language
• Familiarity with System z or POWER boot process
• Experience working directly with silicon vendors (IHVs) or hardware manufacturers (ODMs) on feature development, platform bringup, and debugging
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