The Role:
Develop low- (BIOS, firmware, device drivers) and mid-level software (emulation, simulation, and virtualization) to enable the use of Openchip’s novel hardware features and accelerators, bringing visible improvements to end users.

Key responsibilities:
• Understand the technical landscape of their project and make decisions about it.
•Make independent technical contributions, especially for the most foundational or challenging parts of the project.
– 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. In particular:
– Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.
– Work with teams developing middleware, and/or contribute to middleware.
• 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.
• Loop in directors and above as needed, for instance to surface potential risks or get feedback based on area-level technical knowledge.
• Collaborate with program managers for task and deliverable tracking, as well as process improvements.
• Communicate outside the team, explaining and divulging technical topics to less technical parts of the organization.

Required qualifications:
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in a

📌 Staff Firmware and Operating System Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Openchip And Software Technologies
📍 Barcelona