Firmware Engineer

Job Title: Firmware Engineer 3 Location: Redmond WA Employment Type: Contract Duration: 12 Months
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.
Job Description:

UEFI SW Developer Role:
Looking for a talented UEFI engineers to deliver great customer experiences. As a UEFI engineer the candidate will take bug repro s and autonomously debug and find root cause and deliver high quality fixed code across Surfaces complete in market product portfolio.
The candidate will have the opportunity work with the Post Launch Engineering Dev team as well as other PLE teams, Surface UEFI engineers, electrical engineers, system engineers, architects and other software engineers to find and fix problems that are affecting our Surface customers.

Desired Skills
Minimum BS in Computer/Software Engineering or related field.
Minimum of 3+ years of experience contributing to the embedded firmware development for products in the consumer PC or consumer electronics industry.
C language development experience (assembly, C# and other higher level languages as well as host level application programming a plus)
UEFI development experience
ACPI development experience
Extensive use of GIT for code management
Project Mu experience
Python scripting experience
Azure DevOps experience
Proven Embedded FW architecture skills showing a deep understanding of embedded systems, IO's, I2C/SPI and other interconnect buses
Strong problem solving and debugging skills for modern-day multiprocessor systems (able to write/debug code, use HW level code debuggers and diagnostics tools)
Ability to use hardware debugging tools such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG, Flash emulators, ICE, etc. during the firmware development process.
Ability to comprehend board hardware schematics.
Familiarity with modern Intel processors and specifications a plus.
Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms. Able to scale conversations from block diagrams to C-level code explanations.
Must be able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving environment.
Enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven.