Staff Firmware Engineer

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd
Bristol, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 115K

Job location

Bristol, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
Booting (BIOS)
Cloud Computing
Software Debugging
Device Drivers
Firmware
Hypervisor
Open Source Technology
System Software
Extensible Firmware Interface

Job description

  • Support, maintain, and evolve production-quality firmware for complex infrastructure platform solutions
  • Lead defect triage, management, and fixing, including feature backporting for downstream releases
  • Act as a primary technical interface to customers on complex firmware and system software issues
  • Collaborate with firmware and release teams on bootloaders, device drivers, UEFI/ACPI, and system software

Technologies:

  • Embedded
  • Firmware
  • Support
  • Security
  • Cloud
  • Hardware
  • IoT

Requirements

  • Expert in C for embedded systems with strong low-level debugging skills
  • Proven experience delivering and maintaining product-quality firmware, with essential hands-on bootloader experience
  • Background in UEFI/ACPI and structured defect management for complex systems, ideally server/infrastructure
  • Familiarity with RAS, hypervisors, CXL, power management, and security; open-source experience highly beneficial

Benefits & conditions

We are a world-leading technology business located in Bristol, offering a hybrid working model. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in the firmware that underpins the next generation of global computing infrastructure. Our team is at the heart of delivering production-quality firmware to customers worldwide. We provide a highly competitive salary ranging from £88,000 to £115,000, alongside substantial equity benefits, extensive holidays, private medical insurance, travel insurance, and more. Join us to work on cutting-edge infrastructure engineering and benefit from long-term career progression.

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