Cloudflare is hiring a
Hardware Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Cloudflare's Hardware Team as a Systems Engineer with a firmware focus to help deliver the team's security goals and projects in 2024 & beyond. As a key member of our team, you will maintain and improve OpenBMC firmware, design and develop features based on industry standards, engage with vendors, and partner with internal teams to understand HW security requirements.

Requirements

• Experience developing firmware and/or embedded SW
• Knowledgeable about servers, enterprise systems and hardware interfaces
• Familiarity with Redfish standards
• Curious and very eager to learn
• Good understanding of hardware security for servers
• Great communication, collaboration and very detail oriented
• Hands-on!! They can build firmwares from open source codes, build demos & POCs, setup systems & run synthetic tests, and debug complex firmware problems as needed
• Experience with Yocto or Buildroot is desirable
• Can create python/bash scripts and edit firmware/driver source code

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve OpenBMC firmware
• Design and develop features based on various industry standards such as OCP and DMTF Standards
• Be able to engage with vendors & guide them through our requirements
• Design solutions for observability and configurations appropriate for various server subsystems e.g. DIMMs, NICs etc
• Be able to partner with teams internally to understand HW security reqs and build a set of features / roadmap for Cloudflare
• Developing and reviewing requirements/code/tests/design documents

Preferred Qualifications

• Own some of their team’s Future FW or HW security tasks / goals and are responsible for delivering these goals on time with a high standard of quality
• Build simple, well-defined plans that are easily adapted without accruing additional complexity over time
• Engage internally as domain experts in server hardware; collaborate with other teams on defining new server requirements, explain new technologies thru Wiki’s and spec sheets, and be the liaison between vendor & internal customers

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $180,000 USD
• Equity
• Health & Welfare Benefits
• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave