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Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. \nEverything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.\nJob Description\nF5 is seeking an accomplished Principal Firmware/Diagnostics Engineer to lead the development of reliable, secure, and serviceable firmware and diagnostics across the full product lifecycle, from hardware bring-up and boot loaders through runtime services and field upgrades.As a key member of the Hardware Development Team, you will provide technical leadership and mentoring, drive roadmap execution and elevate engineering excellence, and partner cross-functionally to deliver platform capabilities that delight customers and meet stringent security and compliance expectations (e.g., secure boot, code signing, measured boot).This role requires deep expertise in firmware/softwaredesign and the ability to influence architecture decisions, ensure design excellence, and foster innovation.\nKey Responsibilities:\nUphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies.\nAct as a technical authority, establishing standards for secure boot, code-signing, anti-rollback protections, measured boot, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.\nLead firmware and diagnostics design for new products, including architecture definition, functional specifications, and requirements development. Work with cross-functional teams to align requirements and shepherd PRDs into executable plans.\nAssist in the planning of work across boot, board bring-up, drivers, runtime services, manufacturing/test firmware, and in-field update mechanisms.\nDefine telemetry, detection, and recovery strategies for firmware integrity, and align to relevant standards (e.g., FIPS 140-3, FedRAMP implications as applicable).\nDefine automated build, test, and validation, ensuring repeatable releases and traceable artifacts across SKUs.\nDrive design for manufacturability, testability, and reliability across all phases of development. Partner with MFG and Global Services to define factory programming, golden images, and resilient upgrade strategies (A/B, recovery partitions).\nResearch and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance existing products and guide new product directions.\nOversee and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance and reviewing work to ensure quality and efficiency. Serve and guide other team members through challenges, assuring their growth and project success\nConduct internal and external technical presentations and disseminate knowledge within the Hardware Development Team.\nDevelop and maintain schedules for deliverables, ensuring timely and high-quality documentation and testing through holistic ownership over assigned product areas and projects. Provide status, risks, and decisions to leadership; translate technical details into business outcomes.\nInterface with suppliers and manufacturing partners for validation and issue resolution.\nSupport sustaining engineering for legacy products and assist in manufacturing training for new designs.\nParticipate in design reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of design processes and standards.\nQualifications:\nRequired:\nUnderstand and comply with F5 internal processes and requirements.\nBS in Computer Scienceor equivalent required; MS in Computer Scienceis desirable.\n10+ years of experience in embedded/firmware engineering.\nAdvanced troubleshooting skills at board and system levels.\nExtensive experience in the following:\nArm/x86 platforms, embedded Linux, secure elements, and measured boot pipelines.\nC/C++, low-level debugging, and board bring-up (oscilloscope/logic analyzer/JTAG).\nAMI Aptio V UEFI BIOS, OpenBMC, AMI MegaRAC/SPX, IPMI and Redfish.\nBoot architecture (UEFI/BIOS, bootloaders), BMC, PFR, TPM, SPI/QSPI flash, IO peripherals, and runtime firmware.\nBuses/protocols (I2C/I3C, SPI, UART, DDR, PCIe, GPIO, PMIC), and memory/storage (NOR/NAND, DRAM, SSD).\nSecurity protocols and knowledge of multiple Platform Root of Trust devices and secure boot mechanisms.\nSource code version control tools such as Git and GitLab.\nCI/CD and Agile software development.\nPrior work with factory programming, golden image workflows, and recovery strategies (A/B, rollback protections).\nExposure to cloud-connected devices and policy/version orchestration across fleets.\nFamiliarity with relevant industry standards and compliance requirements.\nExcellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nPreferred:\nCompliance and security standards (e.g., FIPS 140-3, NIST SP 800-193).\nThe Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.\nPlease note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com ).\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nIt is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. 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