Amazon
Sr Software Engineer - BIOS, AWS Hardware Engineering, Firmware Development
$168K–$262K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development; 6+ years in programming, design or architecture leadership, and bare-metal firmware OR BIOS/UEFI development in C. The posting also separately specifies 6+ years of bare-metal firmware development in C on MCUs, SoCs, or server platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Develops and leads BIOS/UEFI firmware for AWS server platforms, including platform bring-up, security, performance optimization, validation, and partner coordination.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, debug, and maintain UEFI/BIOS features, POST code, ACPI tables, and platform reference code.
- Optimize boot performance and implement secure boot, firmware updates, and recovery mechanisms.
- Lead platform bring-up and validation with hardware teams, ODMs, and silicon vendors; mentor engineers and coordinate project delivery.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 6+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 6+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- 6+ years of bare-metal firmware OR BIOS/UEFI development in C, including bare-metal firmware development on MCUs, SoCs, or server platforms; not embedded Linux or kernel driver development.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- BIOS/UEFI/EDK2/Coreboot experience on x86 or ARM server platforms, or experience with ACPI, SMM, PCIe enumeration, secure boot, platform RAS, or silicon-vendor reference code integration.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
UEFI/BIOS, C, ITP, ScanTool, JTAG, ACPI, EDK2, Coreboot
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