Oxide Computer Company · 1 month ago
Embedded Systems Engineer
Emeryville, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$235K/yr - $235K/yrOxide Computer Company is seeking an experienced Embedded Systems Engineer to work on software for their unique Oxide Root of Trust and Service Processor. The role involves developing custom OS software, improving debugging tools, and collaborating with teams to ensure effective hardware bring-up and testing.
Cloud InfrastructureEmbedded SystemsHardwareInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Work with a friendly and positive team to develop Hubris, our custom OS written in Rust that runs on our Service Processor and Root of Trust
Improve our in-house debugger – Humility – to make debugging easy for engineering development and manufacturing
Ensure debuggability of the RoT/SP from customer racks
Improve the infrastructure around Hubris and Humility: build systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, continuous integration, etc
Collaborate with our factory software team, who rely on these tools for hardware bringup and testing
Write programs that interact with the physical world, from blinking lights to rack-level thermal control systems to supporting hot-swap of server components
Read datasheets and C SDKs for relevant sensors, microcontrollers, etc., and implement drivers for them in Rust
Collaborate with other engineers working across all parts of the system to improve code that interacts with the RoT/SP, such as the management gateway service and Omicron
Participate in new hardware platform design and bring-up
Understand customer use cases and how those connect to the services provided by the RoT and SP
Qualification
Required
Experience shipping software in Rust
Worked with microcontrollers enough to understand the trade offs involved in choosing components
Ability to collaborate with a team to identify when to pay off technical debt vs working on new features
Understanding of the importance of supposedly 'boring' parts of a system, such as build systems
Experience reviewing schematics and can perform basic hardware checks
Belief in fully documenting your ideas
Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
Excitement about computers and digging really deep into them
Benefits
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Company
Oxide Computer Company
Oxide Computer Company is a maker of server racks for on-premises compute infrastructure.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$378MKey Investors
US Innovative Technology FundEclipse Ventures
2026-01-07Series Unknown· $184M
2025-07-30Series B· $100M
2023-10-26Series A· $44M
Leadership Team
Steve Tuck
Co-Founder and CEO
Jessie Frazelle
Co-Founder
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