Overview
Staff Firmware and Operating System Engineer
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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.
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 and work with teams developing middleware.
- Provide technical guidance to more junior team members, act as a mentor, review design documents and code changes for correctness and quality, identify opportunities for code and/or process improvements, and loop in directors as needed for risk or area-level feedback.
- Collaborate with program managers for task and deliverable tracking, as well as process improvements.
- Communicate technical topics to less technical parts of the organization.

Qualifications
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in the relevant field (more than 10 year

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