Software Engineer BIOS / Penang, Malaysia

Tasks:

• Support technical definition of planned products.
• Contribute to hardware schematics creation. Provide input for and verify software compliant hardware design.
• Create schedules and provide effort and cost estimations for software development tasks and projects.
• Self-reliant handling of software development tasks and projects.
• Create (or provide), test, release and distribute the required standard or customized software component: BIOS (x86), Boardcontroller Firmware (BC FW) (x86), Board Support Packages (BSPs) for defined target operating systems (drivers,kernel patches ...) (x86, ARM), Bootloader (ARM) o Utilities (x86, ARM) 
• Support hardware bring-up and debugging.
• Create and provide software for test purposes and failure analysis.
• Support congatec Test Engineering (TE) department during mass production tester development.
• Analyze and solve technical customer issues in cooperation with the Technical Solution Center (TSC) department.
• Create required software and software usage documentation.
• Perform training and know how transfer for congatec field application engineers and sales representatives.
• Contribute to the creation of technical specifications for new standards, products and features.
• Analyze and solve product and software component issues during life cycle.
• Perform required software maintenance and update tasks. 

Profile:

• University degree in electrical engineering or similar
• Profound knowledge of x86 architecture
• Experience with hardware related, low level programming in C/C+ + (and assembler)
• Basic knowledge of the architecture of contemporary operating systems
• Experience with low level software programming (driver development) and UEFI BIOS
• Good level of spoken and written English