Senior BMC Firmware Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Mountain View, California; on-site Tuesday through Thursday. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $200,000+ base salary plus RSUs

Company

Well-funded AI semiconductor startup building a new processor architecture and its first generation of AI compute boards for frontier-scale language models.

What you will do

• Build and ship OpenBMC firmware for custom AI compute boards.
• Own Yocto/OpenEmbedded builds, board ports, U-Boot, and device trees.
• Develop telemetry, inventory, event logging, thermal, power, and RAS capabilities.
• Implement Redfish, IPMI, MCTP, PLDM, and SPDM interfaces.
• Build secure-boot, attestation, and firmware-update flows.
• Write Linux kernel drivers and D-Bus/sdbusplus services while debugging hardware and firmware with schematics, JTAG, and lab equipment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of BMC firmware or embedded-Linux experience.
• Hands-on ownership of OpenBMC from board bring-up through production.
• Strong C/C++ skills and experience with Python or Bash.
• Deep experience with Yocto/OpenEmbedded, U-Boot, device trees, and Linux internals.
• Experience with ASPEED, Nuvoton, or similar BMC SoCs and board-level interfaces including I2C/I3C, SPI, SMBus, UART, PCIe, or JTAG.
• Knowledge of Redfish, IPMI, MCTP, PLDM, or SPDM, with the ability to work across firmware, hardware, silicon, and systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to establish the management firmware architecture for a new AI platform.
• Broad influence over firmware architecture, platform manageability, and board design.
• RSU compensation in addition to the base salary.
• Work in a small, early-stage engineering area with responsibility for the path from initial board bring-up to production deployment.