Firmware Engineer

Job Req ID: 29781

About Supermicro:

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.
 

Job Summary:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Firmware Engineer to join our team, focusing on thermal solutions, cooling systems and cooling tower control. This role is crucial for developing and optimizing Firmware solutions that enhance the performance and efficiency of our cooling products. The successful candidate will work on advanced control algorithms, system integration, and Firmware development to ensure our cooling solutions meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for system integration and system validation of products under development and future products.
2. Responsible for interface implementation, debugging, and cross-interface consistency maintenance of communication protocols (Redfish, Modbus TCP, SNMP).
   Develop and maintain protocol-related tools, simulation environments, or automation support programs.
3. Handle specification understanding, interface consistency, related implementation, and tool development for communication protocols such as Redfish, Modbus TCP, and SNMP.
   Define test strategy, test levels (Smoke / Sanity / Regression), priorities, and acceptance criteria based on specifications.
4. Design and execute test cases covering Web UI, Redfish, SNMP, Modbus TCP, cross-interface alarms, and protection functions.
5. Establish and maintain pre-production mandatory test items and release criteria.
6. Analyze failures, group issues, identify specification gaps, and track them to closure.
7. Write and verify related documents: organize specifications, interface descriptions, alarm code tables, and test-related documents; check consistency with actual behavior and track contradictions and gaps to closure.
8. Build reusable assets (protocol-related tools, test cases, known-failure baselines, automation scripts, or checklists).
   
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in embedded systems or firmware development.
• Must have
  Experience in system integration or embedded software development, as well as system validation experience.
  Hands-on implementation experience with C/C++ and Python.
  Ability to read technical specifications (including communication protocols) and convert them into implementation items and test items.
  Ability to independently complete protocol-related implementation or tool development, as well as independently design and execute test cases, analyze issues, and track them to closure.
  Systems thinking to distinguish between specification issues, implementation issues, and test gaps.
  Ability to write and verify technical documents, confirm consistency between content and actual behavior, and organize differences.
• Nice to have
  Familiarity with Redfish, BMC, RESTful API, IPMI, Modbus TCP, SNMP, or Web UI.
  Experience with pytest or similar automation frameworks.
  Experience in industrial control or cooling systems.
  Understanding of test safety classifications (hazard, never-automate, write-and-restore, etc.).

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.