Senior Staff Software Engineer, Founding BMC

The role

You will lead BMC firmware work by setting technical direction for architecture, platform bring-up, and security. You will manage relationships with ODM and OEM partners and build the BMC engineering team.

What you will do

• Define Crusoe's BMC architecture and stack strategy.
• Lead BMC bring-up on new server platforms.
• Own the BMC build, CI/CD, signing, and release pipeline.
• Drive BMC security architecture including secure boot and root of trust.
• Lead the BMC technical relationship with ODM and OEM partners.
• Author and own the BMC sections of platform requirements.
• Build out BMC-driven telemetry and observability.
• Partner with platform and production teams to resolve systemic BMC issues.
• Define SLOs and update/rollback strategy for BMC firmware.
• Hire and grow the BMC team.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of firmware engineering, with deep hands-on BMC experience.
• Hands-on expertise with at least one production BMC stack (OpenBMC, AMI MegaRAC, or equivalent), including the embedded Linux, U-Boot, and device tree layers underneath.
• Demonstrated experience leading BMC bring-up on new server platforms.
• Strong C/C++ on embedded Linux.
• Comfortable in Python or shell for automation and tooling.
• Deep familiarity with BMC management protocols and standards: IPMI 2.0, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, and NC-SI.
• Hands-on debugging across BMC-to-host interfaces: eSPI, LPC, IPMB, KCS, BT (Block Transfer).
• BS/MS in CS, EE, CompE, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience working with ODM/OEM partners on BMC firmware
• Familiarity with Yocto / BitBake (or equivalent build systems for embedded Linux distributions)
• Production experience: BMC firmware you've shipped is running in a fleet today, and you've debugged it there
• BMC security work: secure boot, RoT, DICE, SPDM, attestation, firmware resiliency, or response to a real firmware CVE
• Familiarity with DC-MHS / DC-SCM and current OCP hardware management direction
• Track record of growing a firmware engineering team
• Active OpenBMC contributor or maintainer
• Experience with GPU server platforms (HGX-class systems, GPU baseboard management, NVLink/PCIe topology debug)
• Background in host firmware (UEFI/BIOS, coreboot), CPLD, or retimer firmware

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.