Hybrid Senior Firmware & OS Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Firmware & OS Engineer developing low-level software for OpenChip’s novel hardware technologies. Collaborating on driver development and infrastructure for device interaction and performance enhancement.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain low-level software (BIOS and firmware) for novel hardware architectures.
  • Develop and maintain device drivers for operating systems (mainly Linux) to expose novel hardware features (e.g., telemetry) and acceleration, as well as to support their emulation and virtualization.
  • Provide monitoring, instrumentation, and telemetry to export system status and health metrics.
  • Provide workload control and configuration, and API entry points to allow remote operation.
  • Configure and extend emulation, simulation, and virtualization software.
  • Interact with ICs from their and other projects to unblock themself or to reach consensus on small technical topics.
  • Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents.

Requirements

  • Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
  • Experience in the relevant field (3-5yr).
  • Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache and memory hierarchy, buses).
  • Good understanding of pre-boot and boot process, and Linux kernel internals.
  • Knowledge about compilation and linking process (toolchains, object file formats, binutils, dynamic loading).
  • Solid knowledge of low-level development languages (C, Rust).
  • Experience with assembly language (of any architecture).
  • Experience with bare metal (without OS) development (e.g., embedded systems, microcontrollers).
  • Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).

Benefits

  • Enjoy a hybrid work environment.
  • Flexible schedule.
  • Competitive compensation package.

Job title

Senior Firmware & OS Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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