Staff Power and Thermal Management (San Diego, CA OR Boulder, CO

Staff Engineer

We are looking for a Staff Engineer with responsibility for Low-Level FW and Platform SW for data-center and cloud AI systems. The role includes understanding of Power and Thermal Management FW to help architect and deliver management solutions for next-generation cloud rack platforms. You will work closely with hardware, system software, infrastructure, and validation teams to deliver production quality firmware. You will play a key technical leadership role in building secure, scalable, and reliable rack-scale management capabilities used in modern cloud and AI infrastructure deployments.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain Firmware and Low-Level System Software for cloud and data-center platforms (SoC, board, and system level)
• Support platform bring-up, board validation, and system integration in collaboration with hardware teams
• Design and develop Power Management FW on target using various HW and SW Components
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with Hardware, Firmware, and Platform Software Teams
• Influence long-term architecture decisions for Power, Rack management and Observability
• Mentor engineers and set technical best practices
• Support customer and production issues, including field debugging and issue resolution

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years experience in embedded systems, firmware, or low-level system software
• Hands-on experience with SoC bring-up, hardware/software integration, and low-level debugging
• Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory systems, interrupts, DMA, and interconnects
• Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded Linux environments
• Working knowledge of IPMI, MCTP, PLDM (SDRs, sensors, command handling)
• Experience debugging real hardware in lab environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Power management and thermal control
  • Platform performance tuning and stress testing
  • Exposure to AI accelerators, high-performance interconnects, or multi-device systems
• Exposure to chassis management or multi-node systems
• Experience collaborating with hardware vendors, ODMs, or manufacturing partners
• Familiarity with Linux device models, or manufacturing test flows
• Prior work in hyperscale, cloud infrastructure, or AI accelerator platforms

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $ - $