Hybrid Staff Firmware Engineer, Operating Systems

at Factorial

• Job title: Staff Firmware Engineer, Operating Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Assembly, Linux, Rust
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Gdansk, Poland

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