Principal Firmware Engineer - OpenBMC
📌Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 190000
Job Description
The mission of this role is to architect and develop firmware and microcontroller subsystems for Astera Labs’ SoC and systems products. Firmware is responsible for implementing the major differentiating features of Astera Labs’ products. As such, firmware is considered equally important to the hardware, and the firmware team is often customer-facing accordingly to ensure the needs of the customer are fully comprehended.
Basic Qualifications
- Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At a minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE or Computer Science is required.
- Minimum 10 years’ Firmware experience developing firmware to execute in on-chip microcontrollers as well as C-language Software Development Kits (SDKs) to execute on system host CPUs and embedded microprocessors.
- Minimum 2 years of OpenBMC experience including design, configuration, development, build, debug, deployment and support.
- Minimum 2 year experience with RedFish, RDE, PLDM, SPDM, MCTP
- Experience working with logic designers to implement and test HW-SW interfaces on complex SoCs.
- Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, and to work with minimal guidance and supervision.
- Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!
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Authorized to work in Canada and start immediately.
- High level of proficiency in C or C++.
- Proficient in Python for scripting.
- Ability to design, implement, and write unit-level tests.
- Working knowledge of software build environments such as gcc, make or cmake.
- Experience with developer workflows, SCM (preferably git), code reviews, CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience with Server, Storage, and/or Networking equipment.
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Familiarity with SoC interfaces to common IP blocks such as PCIe Controllers, DDR Controllers, NVME Controllers, on-chip memory interfaces, and other similar interfaces.
- Experience with additional DMTF standards is an asset.
- RTOS development experience is an asset.
- Pre-silicon emulation development experience is an asset.
- Experience with PCIe/CXL firmware development and lab debug is an asset.
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Experience developing firmware for PCIe or Ethernet Switch products is an asset.
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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