Head of Platform Software

The role

The Head of Platform Software will own the physical platform layer including device and link discovery, health, and firmware integration. This person will build and lead the platform software team to deliver a versioned interface between hardware and the workload stack.

What you will do

• Own node, rack, and cluster bring-up software including discovery, provisioning, configuration, and readiness gating.
• Define and maintain a versioned interface between the platform layer and the workload stack.
• Own device and link discovery and health and publish normalized state and events.
• Drive fault detection and classification including severity-based handling and escalation paths.
• Own firmware, BMC, and low-level platform software integration, packaging, and update flows.
• Deliver health telemetry, diagnostics integration, and fleet monitoring for deployed clusters.
• Build tooling and recipes to turn up, stabilize, and hand off initial clusters to production operations.
• Hire and lead the platform software team, owning technical direction, milestones, quality, and on-call.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years in systems software, including substantial experience with rack-scale, cluster-scale, or large server infrastructure.
• Track record of taking a platform or infrastructure program from design to shipped software with milestones.
• Depth in several of the following: hardware bring-up, device and firmware interfaces, BMC and out-of-band management, fleet management, and fault handling.
• Hands-on experience with BMC and out-of-band management standards (Redfish, OpenBMC, PLDM) and firmware update frameworks.
• Experience building and leading engineering teams, including hiring, growing leaders, and managing cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong judgment in interface and contract design between systems layers.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with accelerator or GPU infrastructure, including taking a new hardware platform from early silicon through first customer deployments.
• Experience with high-speed interconnect and fabric software such as PCIe, NVLink-class, CXL, RDMA, InfiniBand, or Ethernet-based fabrics.
• Experience with Kubernetes, device plugins, and cluster lifecycle tooling.

About the company

d-Matrix has pioneered a memory-centric architecture that brings compute directly into memory. The team works on chips, software, and rack-scale systems to tackle AI infrastructure challenges.