NPU MI (Management Interface) Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES - Design and develop the NPU Management Interface (MI) firmware/software enabling communication between Host/BMC and NPU devices - Implement and maintain MCTP, PLDM, and custom MI command handling for out-of-band NPU management, monitoring, and control - Develop device-management features over SMBus/I²C, I3C, PCIe VDM, or custom sideband channels - Integrate MI functionality into the NPU firmware, including: - Health and error reporting - Thermal and power telemetry - Runtime status, utilization metrics, and debug information - Ensure compliance with industry specifications by performing spec-driven design, implementation, and validation - Support bring-up, interoperability testing, rack-scale platform integration, and system-level validation - Develop test strategies and validation tools based on MCTP and PLDM specifications - Perform protocol compliance testing, regression testing, and interoperability verification REQUIREMENTS - Strong proficiency in embedded C or C++ - Experience with firmware development for NPU/accelerator, GPU, or SoC - Understanding of management protocols including MCTP (over I²C/SMBus, I3C or PCIe VDM) and PLDM - Experience with low-level interfaces: SMBus/I²C, I3C, SPI, PCIe - Ability to interpret complex protocol specifications and convert them into robust implementations - Familiarity with device telemetry, sensor frameworks, watchdog/reset flows, and health monitoring - Experience with system-level debugging using logic/protocol analyzers and low-level debug tools - Knowledge of embedded systems, bare-metal or RTOS environments, and firmware lifecycle flows PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience of BMC firmware stacks such as OpenBMC, Redfish, IPMI, and PLDM device-model implementations - Background in spec creation, requirement definition, or standards compliance validation - Experience defining FRU data, power/thermal management policies, and diagnostics frameworks - Familiarity with secure provisioning, firmware update mechanisms, and lifecycle state management - Experience with large-scale datacenter or HPC system integration (rack-level management, telemetry aggregation) - Contributions to firmware for accelerator, MCTP/PLDM implementations, or open-source system firmware projects CONTACT - recruit@furiosa.ai