Senior Hardware Platform Software Engineer - AI HAL

Great Sky; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Health insurance (medical/dental/vison

Flexible PTO

Learning support

Job summary

Great Sky seeks a Hardware Platform Software Engineer to extend the software stack that operates our hardware. You will build a HAL translating AI framework calls into driver-level operations and an experiment framework for streamlined measurements on our chips.

You will own the middleware between the driver layer and AI frameworks, introducing telemetry, diagnostics, and regression testing to ensure reliability across hardware revisions, while collaborating across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of professional software engineering for control of real physical hardware (e.g., quantum control stacks, novel accelerators, photonic systems, scientific instrumentation, embedded systems, or comparable platforms)
• Demonstrated ownership of an API or abstraction layer that other engineers used: you have designed interfaces, defended their boundaries, and evolved them
• Superior proficiency in Python and working proficiency in at least one systems language (e.g., C, C++, or Rust)
• Hands-on experience orchestrating lab instrumentation in software (e.g., SCPI instruments, DAQs, AWGs, cameras, motion stages, or cryogenic systems)
• Strong testing instincts: unit, integration, and regression testing, hardware-in-the-loop test design, and simulation/hardware parity testing
• Excellent technical writing and communication: high-quality architecture and interface documentation, and the ability to negotiate contracts across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build an enhanced hardware abstraction layer (HAL) translating AI framework calls to driver-level hardware operations across generations
• Develop a robust experiment framework for easy and elegant measurement declarations
• Provide analysis pipelines to maximize value from inference and measurements
• Present a unified API for simulated and physical backends, interfacing with existing simulation framework for verification
• Define middleware between driver layer and AI frameworks, adding telemetry, diagnostics, and regression testing across revisions

Skills

Python

Systems languages

API design

Lab instrumentation

Testing

Education

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

Tools

SCPI instruments

DAQs

AWGs

Cameras

Job description

Great Sky seeks a Hardware Platform Software Engineer to extend the software stack that operates our hardware. You will build a HAL translating AI framework calls into driver-level operations and an experiment framework for streamlined measurements on our chips.

You will own the middleware between the driver layer and AI frameworks, introducing telemetry, diagnostics, and regression testing to ensure reliability across hardware revisions, while collaborating across disciplines.