Senior Control-Plane Architect (Go)

Positron AI; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Unlimited PTO

13 holidays

Company laptop

Job summary

Positron AI is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to drive control-plane architecture for its AI inference hardware systems. You will connect low-level hardware capabilities to system management, diagnostics, security, and firmware updates using Go, with C/C++/Python at boundaries.

You will own end-to-end features from architecture through testing and production validation, leading reviews and mentoring while applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and maintain rigor.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with production systems.
• Background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with board-level interfaces.
• Strong Go production experience across services, APIs, and debugging.
• Hands-on coding in Go, C/C++, Python, or Bash.
• Broad knowledge of web apps, distributed services, Linux, device interfaces, and low-level protocols.
• Deep Linux knowledge: processes, networking, storage, and resource management.
• Experience with hardware interfaces (PCIe, I2C) and drivers.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure distributed systems and security in platform software.
• Track record delivering features end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Technical leadership via architecture docs, reviews, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform architecture and control-plane implementation for hardware systems.
• Write and review production Go code; use C, C++, Python, or Bash at boundaries.
• Work across web apps, Linux services, hardware interfaces, and protocols.
• Refactor subsystems for modularity, testing, and fault isolation.
• Define stable interfaces and data models for orchestration and diagnostics.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to build platform services.
• Debug failures at board/system level across CPU, memory, storage, I2C, SMBus, PCIe, FPGAs.
• Build safe control paths for reboot, hardware health, and resource allocation.
• Integrate management controllers, telemetry, and platform APIs.
• Expose diagnostics via platform APIs with persistent results and archiving.
• Create metrics/logs/alerts with OpenTelemetry-compatible sinks.
• Incorporate external health probes for isolation and recovery.
• Profile and drive root-cause analysis for performance issues.
• Design security into software including authentication, secrets, and update integrity.
• Lead design/code reviews across software, firmware, hardware boundaries.
• Mentor engineers while delivering critical implementation and debugging work.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Python

Linux

Security

Distributed systems

Architecture

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

EE/CE/CS degree

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

IPMI

Job description

Positron AI is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to drive control-plane architecture for its AI inference hardware systems. You will connect low-level hardware capabilities to system management, diagnostics, security, and firmware updates using Go, with C/C++/Python at boundaries.

You will own end-to-end features from architecture through testing and production validation, leading reviews and mentoring while applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and maintain rigor.