[外商] System Lead (Device Driver Firmware)

A leading technology organisation is seeking a System Lead (Device Driver Firmware) in Taiwan to lead the integration, validation, and debugging of server platform devices across networking, storage, firmware, drivers, and operating systems.

Working closely with hardware, firmware, BIOS, CPLD, and software teams, you will resolve complex system-level issues, strengthen platform stability, and support successful customer qualification.

Key responsibilities:

• Debug and validate Ethernet NICs, OCP NICs, SmartNICs, and storage devices on server platforms
• Analyse and resolve firmware, driver, and operating system issues related to platform devices
• Investigate PCIe enumeration, BAR assignment, link training, hot-plug, and device initialisation issues
• Support Linux-based driver debugging and log analysis
• Validate device firmware releases and qualification packages
• Perform root cause analysis of hardware, firmware, driver, and operating system interaction issues
• Support customer escalations involving NICs, storage devices, firmware, and operating system integration
• Collaborate with BIOS, CPLD, BMC, hardware, and software teams to drive issue resolution
• Review the architectural impact of networking and storage subsystems on server platforms

Candidate profile:

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in server platform integration, device validation, firmware debugging, or Linux driver engineering
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet technologies (10G–400G), OCP NIC 3.0, SmartNIC/DPU concepts, TCP/IP, and network performance analysis
• Experience with NVMe SSDs, PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, SAS/SATA, RAID, and storage performance validation
• Proficiency in Linux environments, including RHEL, Ubuntu, or Rocky Linux, with knowledge of device drivers, firmware update mechanisms, driver debugging, kernel logs, system boot flow, and OS deployment and validation
• Ability to investigate PCIe device initialisation and complex hardware, firmware, driver, and operating system interactions

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with Intel E810, NVIDIA ConnectX-6/7/8, Broadcom NICs, AMD Pensando, or Samsung, Kioxia, and Solidigm NVMe SSDs
• Exposure to Redfish, IPMI, BMC interactions, PMBus/I²C communication, and server platform qualification
• Additional experience in Python scripting, Linux kernel debugging, PCIe protocol analysis, CPLD interactions, cloud service provider server platforms, or OCP standards

Relevant Industry Background

• Experience in networking hardware, semiconductor, storage, server manufacturing, or computing platform engineering environments

About this company:

A technology organisation specialising in product design and engineering across server platforms, embedded systems, and data-centre infrastructure. Its focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning offers engineers the opportunity to solve complex challenges and contribute to next-generation computing solutions.

Keywords: Server Platform Integration Engineer, Device Driver Firmware Engineer, Linux Kernel and Driver Debugging, PCIe and NVMe Validation, Server Hardware Systems Engineering

What’s next:

Ready to solve complex firmware and server platform challenges? Apply now to put your Linux debugging and hardware integration expertise to work across networking and storage technologies!