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Were looking for an experienced Sr. Manager Firmware to lead a team building reliable secure and serviceable firmware across the full product lifecyclefrom hardware bringup and boot loaders through runtime services and field upgrades. Youll own roadmap execution elevate engineering excellence and partner crossfunctionally to deliver platform capabilities that delight customers and meet stringent security and compliance expectations (e.g. secure boot code signing measured boot).

Responsibilities:

• Lead & grow the team: Build and mentor a diverse team of firmware engineers set clear objectives and develop career paths; foster a hightrust highownership culture.

• Own roadmap & delivery: Drive quarterly and annual planning sequencing work across boot board bringup drivers runtime services manufacturing/test firmware and infield update mechanisms.

• Raise the bar on security & quality: Establish standards for secure boot codesigning antirollback protections measured boot vulnerability remediation and incident response.

• Drive architecture & design reviews: Make pragmatic architecture choices for bootloaders (legacy BIOS (AMI Phoenix Insyde) and modern UEFI/EDK II) embedded Linux components and BMC/MCU firmwarebalancing performance reliability and serviceability.

• Establish robust CI/CD for firmware: Define automated build test and validation ensuring repeatable releases and traceable artifacts across SKUs.

• Support manufacturing & field readiness: Partner with MFG and Global Services to define factory programming golden images and resilient upgrade strategies (A/B recovery partitions).

• Collaborate crossfunctionally: Work with Hardware FPGA Data Path MFG and Product Management teams to align requirements and shepherd PRDs into executable plans.

• Manage risk & compliance: Define telemetry detection and recovery strategies for firmware integrity and align to relevant standards (e.g. FIPS 1403 FedRAMP implications as applicable).

• Budget & vendor management: Plan capacity skill mix and external partnerships (contractors tooling labs vendors) to meet goals within budget.

• Communicate crisply: Provide status risks and decisions to leadership; translate technical details into business outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 years in embedded/firmware engineering including 2-3 years prior experience managing or leading a technical team of firmware engineers

• Proven experience with UEFI BIOS.

• Deep knowledge of OpenBMC IPMI or Redfish.

• Handson experience with C/C and lowlevel debugging

• Deep knowledge of boot architectures (UEFI/BIOS bootloaders) BMC SPI/QSPI flash IO peripherals and runtime firmware.

• Strong background in implementing security protocols and secure boot mechanisms.

• Strong understanding of buses/protocols (I2C/I3C SPI UART DDR PCIe GPIO PMIC) and memory/storage (NOR/NAND DRAM SSD).

• Proficiency with tools such as Git GDB and JTAG.

• Demonstrated success shipping products at scale owning release management and infield update frameworks.

• Developed strategies for testing and resolving firmware issues across development and production.

• Excellent people leadership performance management and stakeholder communication.

• Experience with Arm/x86 platforms embedded Linux secure elements and measured boot pipelines.

• Prior work with factory programming golden image workflows and recovery strategies (A/B rollback protections).

• Exposure to cloudconnected devices and policy/version orchestration across fleets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years in embedded/firmware engineering including 6 years prior experience managing or leading a technical team of firmware engineers

• Prior work experience with AMI Aptio V

• Prior work experience with AMI MegaRAC/SPX

• Prior work experience in board bringup (oscilloscope/logic analyzer/JTAG).

• Prior work experience utililizing PFR and TPM

• Working knowledge of multiple Platform Root of Trust devices

• Familiarity with compliance and security standards (e.g. FIPS 1403 NIST SP 800-193).

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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