Senior Embedded Engineer - C Programming, BIOS, UEFI

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Hardware
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking
  • Job Id
    1428040

Who are We:

Computing solutions provides all the resources our IT team needs to excel today and lead in the future while growing performance, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and simplifying management. With modern servers, hyperconverged infrastructure, edge and multicloud solutions, SaaS management, optimization software, and more, Cisco can power all your application workloads, anywhere you need them.

Who You'll Work With:

  • This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco's fastest growing product UCS in Datacentre Group.
  • The team works on the next generation data centre products that enable large scale low-latency networking and storage IO virtualization.
  • This is a forward-thinking team that has an open communication, empowered partnership work, innovation, and customer success culture.

What You'll Do:

  • The design, development, debugging and testing of BIOS software for Cisco UCS servers.
  • Participate in product development in all stages from planning and design to development and testing.
  • Collaborate with business and technical team members to clearly understand business objectives, customer needs, and product requirements.
  • Responsible for the ownership of BIOS modules.
  • Participate in the industry specifications, vendor's hardware documentation, then implement supporting BIOS into existing code bases Implement silicon support in our platform.
  • Integrate silicon vendor's reference code.
  • Ownership of platform BIOS through the platform lifecycle from bring up through sustenance.

Who You Are

A Firmware  Engineer with 10+ years of experience in below technologies:

  • Good C programming exposure with BIOS/UEFI background.
  • Participation in code review, code analysis, requirements analysis, risk analysis, code profiling and tuning.
  • Experience with Debug BIOS, OS, hardware, and driver issues.
  • Experience with AMI Aptio / EDK2 BIOS.
  • Experience inServer and Storage Domains
  • Knowledge ofPC hardware and operating systems.
  • Knowledge Industry specs like ACPI/PCIE/CXL/NVME/GPU/LOM/SAS/I2C/IPMI/SMBIOS/BMC/etc.’

Optional Skills:

  • Understanding of Networking/
    • Open compute/SPDM / AI server architecture 
  • .
  • Remote manageability knowledge.

Why Cisco:

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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