Senior Firmware Engineer, OpenBMC
CoreWeaveAbout the role
What You’ll Do
To accelerate datacenter deployment and management, CoreWeave is expanding its firmware engineering team to focus on developing and maintaining OpenBMC-based firmware for our next-generation Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs).
As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware features that enable secure, scalable, and reliable control across CoreWeave’s high-performance compute infrastructure. You’ll work independently on complex components, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and help set best practices for firmware quality and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design & Implement: Develop and enhance OpenBMC firmware in C++ for CoreWeave’s custom server platforms, contributing to key subsystems such as sensor management, power and thermal control, networking, and system monitoring.
- Integrate & Debug: Collaborate with hardware design, platform software, and reliability teams to integrate firmware with new hardware and validate performance across diverse environments.
- Optimize: BMC Performance and Harden Security
- Root Cause Analysis: Perform deep system-level debugging using tools such as GDB, JTAG, or logic analyzers to resolve cross-layer issues between hardware, firmware, and OS.
- Automate & Validate: Contribute to continuous integration and automated testing frameworks for OpenBMC build and validation.
- Document & Share: Maintain clear technical documentation and participate in design reviews to ensure consistency and maintainability across the firmware codebase.
- Collaborate Broadly: Partner with other ICs and technical leads across CoreWeave’s infrastructure engineering, hardware design, and operations teams to align firmware capabilities with platform and datacenter goals.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: 4+ of professional experience in firmware or embedded systems development, including direct work with Linux-based OpenBMC firmware.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems.
- Hands-on experience with OpenBMC, Yocto Project, and embedded Linux environments.
- Familiarity with hardware interfaces and protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, IPMI, DMTF Redfish)
- Experience with hardware bring-up, board-level debugging, and sensor integration.
- Comfort with Linux kernel configuration, device trees, and BSP-level integration.
- Working knowledge of source code control system such as Git
- Comfort with debugging tools such as GDB JTAG and debugging over serial or remote consoles.
- Basic scripting skills in Python or Bash for build automation and validation.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking; able to break down complex system-level issues.
- Communicates effectively with peers across hardware, firmware, and operations teams.
- Self-driven with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and balances multiple priorities effectively.
Preferred Qualification
- Experience developing CI/CD pipeline for firmware builds and regression testing
- Exposure to large-scale datacenter or HPC environments
- Contributions to open-source firmware projects or upstream Linux development
The base salary range for this role is $153,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal
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