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Sanmina-SCI · Chennai, India

# Senior Firmware Engineer

Chennai, India Senior individual contributor Software Engineering 

Last seen on Sanmina-SCI’s official careers site on July 12, 2026; it may have closed since.
[Apply on Sanmina-SCI’s careers site →](https://careers.sanmina.com/job/1056/senior_firmware_engineer)

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## Job description

### Firmware Engineer 4 Duties of Position

(Include specific duties and responsibilities) The person should perform the following in his role:

### Architect Open BMC Solutions
- Lead the design and implementation of Open-BMC distributions tailored for hyper scale hardware, including hardware abstraction layers and D-Bus interfaces.

### Hyper scale Collaboration
- Partner with Hardware and Systems teams to define firmware requirements for OCP (Open Compute Project) compliant servers and storage enclosures.

### Modern CI/CD Integration
- Drive automated testing and continuous integration workflows for firmware, ensuring high-velocity deployments without sacrificing stability.

### Security & Root of Trust
- Implement and maintain platform security features, including Secure Boot and hardware Root of Trust (RoT) integration.

### Full-Stack Ownership
- Manage firmware development from low-level boot loaders (U-Boot) to high-level management APIs (Redfish/gRPC).

### Production Support
- Provide expert-level debugging for critical issues identified in hyper scale data centres, utilizing remote telemetry and crash dump analysis.
- Participate in firmware code development and code review process
- Provide weekly status updates to key stake-holders on development status Qualifications Required: (Education, experience, skills, etc. Please be specific) BS/MS/BE/BTech or ME/MTech in EE, CS, or CE with 8 to 12 years of relevant firmware experience.
- Sound knowledge of Embedded SW in C, C++, Real Time OS. Strong debugging skills, working with new/existing, complex code base
- Embedded programming experience for multi-thread architectures involving multiple processes, Board bring up

### Cloud-Scale Tooling
- Experience with Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, and containerization (Docker) for firmware build environments.

### Hardware Bring-up
- Experience with Aspeed AST2500/AST2600 (the industry- standard BMC chips) and low-level debugging using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- BMC rebranding, BIOS configuration, integration, Knowledge in FPGA Linux Socket programming and IPC, Shell scripting
- Knowledge and development experience in Web scripting, test Automation

### Hyperscale Experience
- Proven track record of shipping firmware for Hyper-scalar data centre products (AWS, Azure, Meta, or Tier 1 OEMs).

### Open-Source
- Strong history of working with Open-BMC; experience replacing proprietary stacks (AMI, Avocent) with open-source alternatives is highly preferred.

### Server Architecture
- Comprehensive understanding of modern server topology, including CPUs (Intel/AMD), GPUs, and NVMe storage.

### Security Expertise
- Experience implementing Cerberus, Titan, or similar hardware security protocols.

### Communication
- Ability to represent the company in industry forums (OCP) and collaborate with geographically distributed open-source contributors.

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Feb 25, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Jul 12, 2026
- Last checked: Jul 12, 2026
- Listed for: 137 days
- Location: Chennai, India[Apply on Sanmina-SCI’s careers site →](https://careers.sanmina.com/job/1056/senior_firmware_engineer)

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