Founding Hardware / Platform Engineer
Core
Building the hardware control plane that provisions, monitors, and recovers a fleet of physical machines (x86, ARM, embedded) to run customer jobs.
Role type
Founding IC hardware/platform engineer
Builds
A reliable, observable fleet of physical servers and embedded targets
Domain
Hardware infrastructure, embedded systems, fleet management
Required skills
Rust, Go, Python, Linux internals, networking (L2/L3, DHCP, VLANs), PXE/iPXE, BMC/Redfish/IPMI, AMQP, system design, observability
Preferred skills
U-Boot, device trees, FPGA bring-up, OpenBMC, async Rust (Tokio), open-source firmware contributions
Technologies
Rust, Python, Linux, PXE/iPXE, Redfish/IPMI, AMQP, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the Rust controller for network boot orchestration; Design and operate out-of-band management (Redfish/IPMI); Lead end-to-end hardware enablement for new board classes; Shape the hardware check-in protocol and failure recovery; Set scalability and observability standards for the fleet; Manage the lab strategy; Partner to expose fleet state via GraphQL API; Mentor new engineers; Participate in on-call rotation for fleet incidents
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC
