Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of compute to bring biology-scale energy efficiency to AI. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and a16z.
About the role
As a Member of Technical Staff, System Software (Runtime & Firmware), you will be a foundational member of our small, multi-disciplinary R&D team and have the opportunity to shape and build the software stack for an entirely new type of computer. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Education: B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Embedded Firmware: Expertise in C/C++ on embedded processors, including interrupts, DMA, memory-mapped register access, and boot and flash paths
- Drivers & Interfaces: Experience developing Linux drivers in kernel or user space, with demonstrated depth in at least one of PCIe, USB, UART, or SPI, and in designing robust protocols over an imperfect physical link
- Software Development: Strong Python engineering alongside your C/C++, and the versioning discipline required when firmware, drivers, and host software each ship independently
- Hardware Debug: Ability to identify, triage, and solve anomalies across silicon, board, firmware, and software, and to correlate measured behavior against simulation models
- Full-stack Communication: Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse teams across the full stack from algorithms to circuits
More about this role
Since 2022, AI has entered the mainstream, reshaping entire industries from education and software development to fundamental consumer behaviors. This revolution has created an unprecedented demand for computation - a demand that is now fundamentally limited by energy, not just in the datacenter, but at a global scale.
At Unconventional, our mission is to solve this. We are rethinking computing from the ground up to build a new foundation for AI that is 1000x more efficient. We're doing this by exploiting the rich physics of semiconductors, mapping neural networks directly to the device physics rather than relying on layers of inefficient abstraction.
As a Member of Technical Staff, System Software (Runtime & Firmware), you will be a foundational member of our small, multi-disciplinary R&D team and have the opportunity to shape and build the software stack for an entirely new type of computer.
System Software is the integrator: we compose our novel compute fabrics and our silicon into a working system, and we build the software stack that drives it. “Extreme co-design” is our guiding principle: the stack, the architecture, and the silicon move together, and your work shapes all...
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