Hardware Firmware Engineer
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
Description -
Hardware Firmware Engineer
Applies solid technical expertise to contribute to the design development and integration of hardware and firmware solutions for complex products and platforms. This role focuses on execution technical problemsolving and subsystem ownership working under general direction from senior engineers and architects.
The engineer collaborates closely with crossfunctional teams suppliers and ODM partners to support engineering development bringup and integration activities while building deeper expertise in firmware architecture silicon enablement and systemlevel design.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to hardware and firmware design and development activities for complex products and platforms including coding debugging testing and integration.
- Implement firmware features and enhancements ensuring correct interaction between hardware firmware BIOS and system software.
- Support platform bringup validation and issue triage during development and sustaining phases.
- Assist senior engineers in evaluating new silicon components firmware technologies and design approaches.
- Participate in architecture discussions and provide input based on implementation experience and system understanding.
- Develop targeted proofofconcept (POC) firmware or hardware modifications to validate design concepts or new technologies.
- Create and maintain technical documentation including design notes interface descriptions bringup guides and firmware configuration details.
- Support testing rootcause analysis and defect resolution to ensure firmware quality stability and performance.
- Follow established engineering processes coding standards and quality practices.
- Collaborate with hardware firmware software validation and manufacturing teams to support engineering execution and integration.
- Work with internal teams and external development partners (suppliers ODMs) on assigned tasks under guidance.
- Communicate technical status risks and issues clearly to project leads and stakeholders.
- Actively participate as a team player while managing multiple tasks or projects in parallel.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously expanding technical depth in firmware embedded systems and platform engineering.
- Learn from senior engineers and progressively take on increased technical ownership.
- May provide informal guidance to interns or newer team members as experience grows.
Education & Experience Recommended
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) Computer Science (CS) or similar field Master of Science in EE or CS (Preferred)
- 4-7 years of experience in hardware firmware embedded systems or platform development
Knowledge & Skills
- Handson experience with firmware and embedded systems development
- Understanding of hardwarefirmware interaction including boardlevel design considerations
- Familiarity with firmware development tools debuggers and programming languages
- Exposure to system architecture concepts and silicon enablement
- Strong analytical debugging and problemsolving skills
- Ability to adapt to fastpaced development environments and evolving requirements
- Clear written and verbal communication skills in English (additional local language skills a plus)
- Ability to explain technical concepts and implementation choices to peers and leads
The pay range for this role is$105050to$161800USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.
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Required Experience:
IC