Hardware Systems Engineer (OpenBMC Firmware)

Location: Hybrid, based in Austin, Texas, United States, or Lisbon, Portugal. Offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Lisbon-based hires: €54,000–€68,000 annual salary; compensation may vary by work location.

Company

hirify.global builds and operates a global network that improves the security, reliability, and performance of Internet applications and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Maintain and improve OpenBMC firmware and develop features based on OCP and DMTF standards.
• Design observability and configuration solutions for server subsystems such as DIMMs and NICs.
• Partner with internal teams to define hardware security requirements, features, and roadmaps.
• Improve hardware-lab provisioning workflows, including BIOS, firmware, settings, and hardware tools.
• Develop and review requirements, code, tests, and design documentation; build adaptable delivery plans and own assigned firmware or hardware-security goals.
• Act as a server-hardware domain expert, collaborate on server requirements, explain technologies through wikis and specification sheets, and liaise between vendors and internal customers.

Requirements

• Experience developing firmware and/or embedded software.
• Knowledge of servers, enterprise systems, and hardware interfaces.
• Good understanding of hardware security for servers.
• Ability to build firmware from open-source code, create demos and proofs of concept, set up systems, run synthetic tests, and debug complex firmware problems.
• Ability to create Python and Bash scripts and edit firmware or driver source code.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, curiosity, eagerness to learn, and attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Redfish standards.
• Experience with Yocto or Buildroot.
• Experience with UEFI development.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Austin or Lisbon within hirify.global’s Infrastructure organization.
• Employee role eligible for hirify.global’s equity plan.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility and family-forming, and mental-health support programs.
• Financial benefits include disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and employee stock participation.
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, plus parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs.
• Global travel medical insurance is available; benefits may vary outside the United States.

Hiring process

• Candidates progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.