Job Title: Staff Engineer, Software   

Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore, India Office)   

Job ID: AI2548    

About SiMa.ai: SiMa.ai™ is scaling Physical AI in Robotics, Automotive, Industrial, Aerospace and Defense, and Medical markets. We have created the industry's best purpose-built, software centric Physical AI HW/SW platform that leads the industry in Ease of use, performance, and power efficiency. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans backed by a set of top investors committed to helping customers bring ML on their platforms. SiMa.ai was founded in 2018, has raised $355M and is backed by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Maverick Capital, Point72, MSD Partners, VentureTech Alliance and more. For more information, visit https://sima.ai/  

Description:  

The SoC software team is responsible for creating the SDK for SiMa.ai’s MLSoC product line. This includes developing/porting OS, boot SW, device drivers, run time environment for multiple CPU subsystems that are part of SiMa.ai’s MLSoC(™), developing embedded Linux based applications and APIs for enabling end2end customer application flow utilizing different IO subsystems that are part of MLSoC.    

Responsibilities:  

We are looking for a software engineer who has experience developing OS device drivers, boot SW and key test applications in a Linux embedded environment. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working in a high-performance team and have partnered with cross functional teams across multiple geographies. Key responsibilities include (but not limited to):  

• Develop and maintain drivers for high speed interfaces like UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, MIPI, DDR.
• Build and maintain system level libraries for buffer management, synchronization, logging, etc.
• Optimize the power and performance of the system.
• Modify and maintain build systems like Yocto and eLxr (Debian).
• Test and verify Linux drivers and environment with Virtualizers and Zebu emulators for pre-silicon validation..
• Provide SW to support HW MLSoC test validation team for post-silicon validation and bring up.  

Key Requirements: 

• BS/MS in computer science with minimum 8 years of experience.  
• Hands-on experience developing firmware, boot code and SW using high performance 64 bit Arm processors.
• Experience of working with UCIe, PCIe EP/RC, SIG Certification, Drivers Linux/Windows Hosts is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience developing drivers for USB, MIPI, Ethernet, eMMC, UFS.
• Development experience with Embedded Linux (e.g. Yocto) or embedded RTOS (e.g. Zephyr) experience is highly desirable.  
• Good proficiency with C/C++.  
• Proven track record and experience building and delivering complex embedded SW products.    

Personal attributes  

Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative, and good at solving problems. Execution and results oriented. Self-driven, thinks big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.