Hardware Platform Software Engineer — HAL & Experiments

Great Sky, Inc.; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

401(k) match

Health, dental, vision, life

Flexible PTO

Learning support

Job summary

Great Sky, Inc. is seeking a Hardware Platform Software Engineer to extend the software platform that operates our hardware. You will own the HAL translating model calls to driver-level operations and build an experiment framework to run measurements on our chips with minimal overhead.

You will collaborate with AI and hardware teams to define contracts, enable simulated and real backends, and introduce telemetry, diagnostics, and regression testing to keep the platform stable across revisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE/Physics or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years software engineering for control of real hardware required.
• Ownership of an API or abstraction layer design and evolution.

Responsibilities

• Build the HAL translating AI framework calls to driver-level hardware commands.
• Create a robust experiment framework for easy, declarative measurements.
• Provide analysis pipelines to maximize value from inferences and measurements.
• Define a unified API for simulated and physical backends with verification.
• Maintain middleware between driver layer and AI frameworks with telemetry.

Skills

Python

API design

System programming

Lab instrumentation

Testing

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE/Physics or related field

Tools

SCPI

DAQ

AWG

Cameras

Cryogenic systems

Job description

Great Sky, Inc. is seeking a Hardware Platform Software Engineer to extend the software platform that operates our hardware. You will own the HAL translating model calls to driver-level operations and build an experiment framework to run measurements on our chips with minimal overhead.

You will collaborate with AI and hardware teams to define contracts, enable simulated and real backends, and introduce telemetry, diagnostics, and regression testing to keep the platform stable across revisions.