Senior Firmware & OS Engineer

Position overview:

Develop low- (BIOS firmware device drivers) and mid-level software (emulation simulation and virtualization) to enable the use of OpenChips novel hardware features and accelerators bringing visible improvements to end users.

Job responsibilities:

Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its particular:

• 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 particular:

• Work with hardware teams influencing hardware/software co-design.
• Work with teams developing middleware and/or contribute to middleware.
• Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews bug triaging design documents. . .
• Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging documentation code fixits rotations. . . ).

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters 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).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
• Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.
• Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu Gem5 Spike).
• Experience with hypervisor technology (KVM Xen).
• Experience with open source software development.
• Experience with system boot technology (UEFI/EDK2 ACPI u-boot devicetree).

Soft skills:

• Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.
• Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
• Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
• Can-do attitude proactive and willing to solve any obstacle by themself. Self-aware self-starter and self-motivated.

What do we offer

• Join an innovative team and experience company growth.
• We believe in investing in our employees and providing them with the opportunities they need to grow and develop their careers.
• Enjoy a hybrid work environment.
• We also offer flexible schedule.
• We offer a remuneration that values your experience.
• The position will have the base in Gdansk.

We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change this industry and help to build a better world.

If you feel identified with Openchip please contact us. We can offer a competitive compensation package in a flexible work schema that will help you to keep a balance between your personal and professional life.

At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to reach their full potential regardless of race gender ethnicity sexual orientation or gender identity.