THE ROLE:
Technical, hands-on engineer with leadership qualities responsible for Client Customer Engineering BIOS / FW applications engineering on Client products (consumer and commercial PC). The individual will work with customers, and liaise with Architecture, FW, Validation and SW teams to support customers, and debug customer related issues. This role is both breadth and depth at the BIOS/FWat platform level.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, develop, and debug BIOS (System Software) for internal/external systems and platforms that use APU/CPU.
- Participant in day-to-day BIOS development work using PC assembly and C languages; will need to interact with internal organizations, BIOS vendors, and customers.
- Comfortable working with PC hardware and platform issues
- Must have strong system debugging skills. The following are typical tasks that the engineer will be responsible for:
- Design BIOS features required by APU/CPU.
- Develop BIOS features for new platforms designed in house or externally; sustain existing BIOS; debug BIOS and system related issues.
- Assist APU/CPU validation, platform validation, and debug engineers to develop/debug system and silicon issues.
- Provide consultation to internal and external customers regarding features and programming requirements.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Strong Knowledge about ACPI, USB, PCIE, SATA and other PC industry standard
- Good at X86 assembly and C language
- Familiar with at least one BIOS code base (AMI, Insyde or Phoenix BIOS).
- Strong communication skills
- Experience in BIOS related tools development is a plus.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.
- Troubleshoots code for firmware (IC embedded code) application.
- Involves collaboration on or assuming the consultative or leadership responsibilities for a specific project or for product development initiatives.
- Is required to deal with internal groups on behalf of the group or project.
- Has accountability for results in a particular area of work.
- May have limited accountability for a small number of engineers related to projects (2-5), (e.g., be involved in any of the following activities: interview and selection, day-to-day technical supervision or mentoring).
