Senior System Software Engineer - Runtime & Firmware (AI Compute)

unconventionalinc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401k matching

Truly unlimited PTO

Complimentary meals

On-site Mountain View office

Job summary

Unconventionalinc is seeking a senior embedded systems software engineer to join a small, multi-disciplinary R&D team. You will help build the system software stack for a new class of AI compute hardware, bridging runtime software on Linux hosts and bare-metal firmware on SoCs.

You will own driver development, on-device firmware bring-up, and cross-boundary protocols, collaborating with AI, system modeling, and hardware teams, including early customers, as we scale the platform in Mountain View.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 7+ years of industry experience in embedded firmware, driver development, or hardware-adjacent systems software.
• Hands-on silicon or hardware bring-up from power-on to running real workloads.
• Expertise in C/C++ on embedded processors and Linux drivers (PCIe/USB/UART/SPI).
• Strong Python engineering and firmware/host software coordination experience.

Responsibilities

• Build the runtime layer that executes models on the target machine across simulation and silicon.
• Design and implement bare-metal firmware for the on-device embedded processor.
• Develop and maintain drivers across host/device boundaries and define protocol interfaces.
• Lead post-silicon software bring-up and feed hardware behavior back into models.
• Collaborate with AI, system modeling, and hardware teams including early customers.

Skills

C/C++ (embedded)

Python

Linux drivers

Hardware bring-up

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

PCIe

USB

UART

SPI

Job description

Unconventionalinc is seeking a senior embedded systems software engineer to join a small, multi-disciplinary R&D team. You will help build the system software stack for a new class of AI compute hardware, bridging runtime software on Linux hosts and bare-metal firmware on SoCs.

You will own driver development, on-device firmware bring-up, and cross-boundary protocols, collaborating with AI, system modeling, and hardware teams, including early customers, as we scale the platform in Mountain View.