Rust Firmware Engineer

Summary

Join Enfabrica, a company revolutionizing AI compute systems, as a highly collaborative Software Engineer. You will contribute to the growth of our Rust-based software stack running on an ARM-based embedded system, focusing on scalability, reliability, and security. This impactful role involves collaborating with hardware, firmware, and kernel developers to design and implement a distributed system for managing hardware resources. You will work at the user-space/kernel-space and hardware/software boundaries, leveraging your expertise in systems programming and distributed systems. Enfabrica offers a strong engineering team and significant investor support.

Requirements

• Be passionate about code quality, including documentation, testing, and performance
• Be a strong coder, easily and independently solve complex problems quickly using Rust
• Be comfortable designing and implementing at the user-space / kernel-space boundary
• Be comfortable operating at the hardware / software boundary
• Have some experience with PCIe device drivers
• Have experience with TCP/IP, RDMA and network control plane development
• Be familiar with open flow, stateful firewalls, packet forwarding and know what a TCAM and LPM tables are good for
• Have relevant experience working on distributed systems or control planes
• Be experienced with systems programming in a Linux environment, including a working knowledge of libc, the system call interface, memory maps, and virtual and physical addressing
• Have some Linux kernel development experience, such as modifying an existing kernel module, looking at the source code to understand a behavior, or creating a custom device driver
• Have experience writing significant programs in Rust, or have some equivalent experience in C++/C, and be excited about working in Rust
• Have some experience using git with a large code base
• Be comfortable using various programming languages and build systems, including Rust, C, C++, Makefiles, Shell scripts, Python, Bazel
• Have relevant experience developing software for embedded systems, preferably ARMv8, including: modifying existing C code for U-Boot and the Linux kernel; writing custom device drivers; generating software images; creating robust software update procedures; bringing up new hardware in the lab; reading board schematics and Verilog/SystemVerilog code

Responsibilities

• Create and grow the Rust based software stack
• Work with hardware engineers, firmware engineers, Linux kernel developers, and other domain experts
• Design and implement a distributed system for managing a unique set of hardware resources at the core of our product