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.

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 del

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