- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of extensive industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
- Strong programming skills in C, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
- Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
- Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
- Proven ability to independently debug complex, cross-layer problems across software and hardware.
- Demonstrated ability to own technically challenging features or subsystems and drive them to production in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
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- Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management.
- Experience crafting or implementing P-state selection, DVFS, clock-control, voltage-control, power-capping, thermal-management, throttling, or workload-aware control policies.
- Experience developing real-time feedback controllers, including reasoning about stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, latency, and noise telemetry.
- Experience building validation, observability, and automation infrastructure for low-level software features.
- Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.
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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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