Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer

Highlights

• Build and scale the switching layer powering OpenAI's AI supercomputers.
• Bring up new switch platforms from factory qualification to mass deployment.
• Integrate switches into fleet-wide monitoring and automated lifecycle workflows.

What they offer

• Relocation assistance
• Equity

Ideal candidate

A low-level systems builder who thrives on ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems and driving new switch platforms from bring-up to fleet scale. Motivated by production impact and close hardware-software collaboration.

Requirements

• Proven experience working with SONiC or comparable NOS stacks such as FBOSS, Cumulus Linux, Arista EOS, Junos PFE-level integration, or equivalent platform software
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: clear interfaces, data models, state-machine design, error handling, testing, observability, performance debugging, and maintainable code
• Experience with Linux kernel internals, network device drivers, platform drivers, hwmon, I2C/SMBus, CPLDs, or board-level platform software
• Experience integrating or debugging switch ASIC SDKs and SAI implementations
• Understanding of L2/L3 forwarding, ECMP, RoCE, BGP, QoS, PFC, buffer tuning, and telemetry
• Experience with platform bring-up and board-level debugging across thermal, fan, power, transceiver, LED, watchdog, CPLD, or OSFP CMIS flows
• Experience with OpenConfig gNMI interfaces, YANG data models, or structured telemetry is helpful
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, distributed config and state management, reproducible builds, and large-scale automation
• Ability to independently drive ambiguous NOS or platform feature development from problem definition through implementation, validation, rollout, and debugging across software, hardware, and vendor boundaries