Firmware Automation Engineer
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
About the Role
You will focus on the silicon and low-level software layers, building the automation frameworks that keep the fleet's firmware up to date, from motherboards and BMCs to InfiniBand fabrics and GPU clusters. You will build the safety nets that allow rapid hardware updates without disrupting the cloud.
Requirements
- Proven experience updating firmware across thousands of nodes
- Deep expertise in DMTF Redfish
- Understanding of firmware management across systemboards, networking and GPUs
- Failure domain expertise and safe unattended rollback
- Proficiency in Python, Go or advanced shell scripting plus Ansible/Salt
Responsibilities
- Design and execute automated zero-touch firmware update pipelines across servers, switches and accelerators
- Own the firmware lifecycle for systemboards, BMCs, InfiniBand HCAs, network switches and GPUs
- Use Redfish and IPMI APIs to discover, configure, inventory and update bare-metal assets at scale
- Build telemetry pipelines and automated rollback mechanisms for post-flash health
- Integrate firmware pipelines into SaltStack/Ansible and provisioning workflows
- Work with hardware vendors and internal teams on errata, CVEs and performance regressions
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits
- Remote work