Embedded Systems Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work with a friendly and positive team to develop Hubris, our custom OS written in Rust that runs on our Service Processor and Root of Trust
• - Improve our in-house debugger – Humility – to make debugging easy for engineering development and manufacturing
• - Ensure debuggability of the RoT/SP from customer racks
• - Improve the infrastructure around Hubris and Humility: build systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, continuous integration, etc.
• - Collaborate with our factory software team, who rely on these tools for hardware bringup and testing
• - Write programs that interact with the physical world, from blinking lights to rack-level thermal control systems to supporting hot-swap of server components
• - Read datasheets and C SDKs for relevant sensors, microcontrollers, etc., and implement drivers for them in Rust
• - Collaborate with other engineers working across all parts of the system to improve code that interacts with the RoT/SP, such as the management gateway service and Omicron
• - Participate in new hardware platform design and bring-up
• - Understand customer use cases and how those connect to the services provided by the RoT and SP

Required Skills

• - Have experience shipping software in Rust
• - Have worked with microcontrollers enough to understand the trade offs involved in choosing components
• - Like to collaborate with a team to identify when to pay off technical debt vs working on new features
• - Understand the importance of supposedly 'boring' parts of a system, such as build systems
• - Have experience reviewing schematics and can perform basic hardware checks
• - Believe in fully documenting your ideas
• - Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
• - Get excited about computers and dig really deep into them

Benefits

• - Remote first
• - Flexible working hours
• - Premium healthcare with 100% coverage of premiums for employees and dependents