Senior Firmware & OS Engineer (Hybrid, Flexible Schedule)

Openchip E Software Technologies; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Flexible schedule

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Openchip E Software Technologies in Barcelona is hiring a senior low-/mid-level software engineer focusing on BIOS, firmware, device drivers, emulation, and virtualization for novel hardware accelerators.

You will contribute to Linux kernel internals, boot processes, and tooling, while collaborating with hardware teams to enable co-design and telemetry-friendly implementations. Hybrid work is offered to grow with the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in the relevant field (more than 10 years).
• Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache and memory hierarchy, buses).
• Good understanding of pre-boot and boot process, and Linux kernel internals.
• Knowledge about compilation and linking process (toolchains, object file formats, binutils, dynamic loading).
• Solid knowledge of low-level development languages (C, Rust).
• Experience with assembly language (of any architecture).
• Experience with source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).

Responsibilities

• Understand the technical landscape of their project and make decisions about it.
• Make independent technical contributions, especially for foundational or challenging parts of the project.
• Develop and maintain BIOS and firmware for novel hardware architectures.
• Develop and maintain device drivers for operating systems (Linux) to expose novel hardware features and acceleration.
• 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.
• Collaborate with engineers and leads to unblock issues or reach technical consensus.
• Work with hardware teams influencing hardware/software co-design.
• Mentor more junior team members and review design documents and code changes.

Skills

C language

Rust

Linux kernel

Computer architecture

Boot process

Assembly language

Git

Jira

Education

Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Qemu

Gem5

Spike

KVM

Xen

Job description

Openchip E Software Technologies in Barcelona is hiring a senior low-/mid-level software engineer focusing on BIOS, firmware, device drivers, emulation, and virtualization for novel hardware accelerators.

You will contribute to Linux kernel internals, boot processes, and tooling, while collaborating with hardware teams to enable co-design and telemetry-friendly implementations. Hybrid work is offered to grow with the team.