Senior System Software Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $250,000+ base salary plus RSUs

Company

Work with a well-funded AI semiconductor startup developing a processor architecture for frontier-scale language models.

What you will do

• Build node-level management services for health, telemetry, inventory, and control.
• Design cluster-management and failover capabilities to minimize downtime.
• Develop REST APIs and CLI tools for diagnostics, firmware updates, and device recovery.
• Create unified management across host software and OpenBMC firmware, extending capabilities from nodes to racks and clusters.
• Debug issues across APIs, daemons, kernel drivers, firmware, and hardware.
• Build provisioning, test automation, and monitoring tools for lab systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of systems-software experience.
• Strong Linux systems development and low-level userspace experience.
• Strong C programming skills plus experience with Go, Rust, C++, or Python.
• Experience building REST APIs and CLI tools for hardware or infrastructure management.
• Understanding of device drivers, telemetry paths, PCIe devices, and BMC-managed systems.
• US work authorization and availability to work from the Mountain View office Tuesday through Thursday.

Nice to have

• Experience with Redfish, OpenBMC, gNMI, or IPMI.
• Cluster or fleet management for GPUs or AI accelerators.
• Hardware bring-up, lab automation, or manufacturing-test experience.
• Firmware updates, secure boot, or attestation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work close to the hardware on a first-generation AI platform.
• Shape how the platform is operated from a single node through a full cluster.
• Hybrid work arrangement with three on-site days per week.
• Equity in the form of RSUs.