About the job

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There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

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Job Description:

We are looking for a Solution Architect to own the technical and behavioral definition of our BIOS/UEFI firmware stack as it aligns to Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications — including MMBI (Modular Motherboard BIOS Interface), OBMF (Open BMC Firmware), and mPnP (Multi-Host Plug and Play, DC-MHS). This role sits at the intersection of standards development and product engineering: you will represent the company in relevant OCP working groups, translate emerging and existing specifications into concrete behavioral and interface documents, and hand engineering a solution architecture they can build against with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Represent the company in OCP and related industry bodies (OCP workgroups covering DC-MHS, OBMF, MMBI, mPnP, and adjacent firmware/hardware specifications), contributing to specification development and tracking spec evolution that affects product direction.
• Translate OCP specifications into internal solution architecture — defining how MMBI, OBMF, and mPnP requirements map onto our BIOS/UEFI and BMC firmware stack.
• Author behavioral specification documents that define expected system behavior at defined interfaces (host-to-BMC, multi-host arbitration, firmware update flows, hot-plug/hot-swap sequencing) in enough detail for engineering to implement without ambiguity.
• Author user-facing and integration documentation (design guides, interface control documents, reference implementation notes) that OEM/ODM partners and internal teams can use to validate compliance.
• Define solution architecture artifacts — block diagrams, sequence diagrams, state machines, and interface contracts — that bridge OCP spec requirements and buildable engineering designs.
• Work cross-functionally with product engineering, firmware development, and validation teams to ensure architecture decisions are implementable, testable, and maintainable.
• Track competitive and ecosystem positioning relative to other firmware vendors and OCP contributors, feeding insights back into product and R&D strategy.
• Support customer- and partner-facing technical discussions, including OEM/ODM enablement and pre-sales technical deep dives on OCP-aligned platforms.

What You'll Bring

• Strong working knowledge of BIOS/UEFI firmware architecture and the boot/platform initialization stack.
• Direct experience with OCP specifications and workgroups — ideally hands-on exposure to MMBI, OBMF, mPnP, or DC-MHS.
• Experience authoring technical specifications: behavioral specs, interface control documents, or architecture design documents that engineering teams have directly implemented from.
• Familiarity with BMC firmware and host-BMC communication models (Redfish, IPMI, or equivalent management interfaces).
• Experience participating in standards bodies or industry consortia — contributing proposals, reviewing draft specs, or representing an organization in working group discussions.
• Ability to operate across abstraction levels: comfortable in a spec committee meeting in the morning and a firmware architecture review in the afternoon.
• Strong technical writing skills — clear, unambiguous documentation is a core deliverable of this role, not an afterthought.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Nice to Have

• Prior contribution history in OCP (named contributor, workgroup co-chair, or spec author).
• Experience with rack-scale or disaggregated server architectures (DC-MHS, multi-host platforms).
• Familiarity with firmware security concepts (HRoT, secure boot, attestation) as they intersect with OCP specs.
• Familiarity with ARM architecture

Why This Role Matters

BIOS/UEFI and platform management are moving from proprietary, vendor-specific implementations toward open, standardized interfaces driven by hyperscalers and OCP. This role ensures our product engineering organization builds ahead of that curve — with architecture that is both spec-compliant and commercially differentiated — while giving the company a direct voice in how those standards evolve.

In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for variable/ incentive compensation and/ or equity.  In addition, this role is eligible for a comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, and more!

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

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