System Software Engineer

What You'll Do Here

• Work closely with the architecture teams, silicon design teams and other software/firmware teams to architect, design, and implement scalable and high-performance system software components, including device drivers in Linux, low-level libraries and daemons
• Deliver unit-tests for all software components being developed, including kernel level softwares
• CPU/memory subsystem optimization for the host system stack
• Write debug and performance monitoring utilities
• Performance profiling, look for opportunities to reduce operating system overheads
• Influence the design of next generations of accelerators, and the host system software stack
• Design system software components to improve system observability, improve resiliency
• Design and implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
• Bring up and help debug issues during new chip bring-up in close collaboration with hardware engineers
• Productize system software stack across various CPU ISAs and operating system versions

Who You Are

• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with 8+ years of experience in the following areas
• Strong hands-on development experience in Linux, both in low-level userspace libraries as well as device drivers in the Linux kernel
• Ability to read hardware data sheets, register definitions etc. to program hardware devices
• Experience in user-facing software bring-up on new custom silicon
• Strong C programming skills
• In-depth knowledge of computer hardware and system architecture
• Good understanding of low-level operating systems interfaces - threads, process management, memory management etc
• Experience debugging issues related to complex hardware-software interaction

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in hardware bring-up, simulation and emulation environments
• Good understanding of system level architecture, interrupts, memory mapped IO, direct memory access, computer systems interconnect, memory hierarchy etc
• Performance tuning and optimization in kernel drivers and modules, low-level libraries

Compensation

• Early Career - $120,000 - $250,000 + equity
• Mid Career - $175,000 - $362,500 + equity
• Senior Career - $250,000 - $475,000 + equity

What We Offer

• A Stake in our success
• A flexible cash equity compensation mix that fits your needs
• Health & Wellness
• Time To Recharge
• Support to Parents
• Learning & Development
• Team Connection
• Financial Wellbeing
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commute On Us
• MatX E[x]tras
• Remote Perks