Hybrid Staff Firmware Engineer, Operating Systems

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About the role

  • Develop and maintain low-level software and device drivers for Openchip's hardware architectures. Collaborate with teams, mentor junior engineers, and enhance system monitoring.

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 engineers and leads from their and other teams to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics
  • Provide technical guidance to more junior team members, also acting as a mentor
  • Review team artifacts (design documents, code changes) both for correctness but also for code quality and consistency
  • Identify opportunities for code and/or process improvement
  • Collaborate with program managers for task and deliverable tracking, as well as process improvements

Requirements

  • Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field
  • Experience in the relevant field (more than 10 years)
  • 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 standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira)

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment
  • Flexible schedule
  • Competitive compensation package

Job title

Staff Firmware Engineer, Operating Systems

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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