Systems Software Engineer NPU Management Interface
FuriosaAI is a South Korean AI semiconductor company building energy-efficient inference accelerators, servers, and software for enterprise and cloud AI deployments.
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About FuriosaAI
FuriosaAI develops the RNGD AI inference accelerator and NXT RNGD Server, alongside a software toolchain for compiling, optimizing, and deploying LLM and agentic-AI workloads.
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About the Role
You will design and develop firmware and software for NPU management communication between hosts, BMCs, and NPU devices. You will implement management protocols and device-management features, integrate telemetry and health reporting, perform compliance and interoperability testing, and build validation tools.
Requirements
- Proficiency in embedded C or C++
- Experience with firmware development for NPUs, accelerators, GPUs, or SoCs
- Understanding of MCTP and PLDM
- Experience with SMBus, I²C, I3C, SPI, and PCIe
- Knowledge of embedded systems, bare-metal or RTOS environments, and firmware lifecycle flows
- Experience with system-level debugging and low-level debug tools
Responsibilities
- Design and develop NPU Management Interface firmware and software
- Implement and maintain MCTP, PLDM, and custom management-interface command handling
- Develop device-management features over SMBus, I²C, I3C, PCIe VDM, and sideband channels
- Integrate health reporting, telemetry, utilization metrics, and debug information into NPU firmware
- Perform specification-driven design, implementation, and validation
- Support bring-up, interoperability testing, platform integration, and system-level validation
- Develop test strategies and validation tools based on MCTP and PLDM specifications
- Perform protocol compliance, regression, and interoperability testing