Originally posted 11 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As Head of Platform Software, you will own the physical platform layer: device and link discovery, health, fault detection, readiness gating, firmware and BMC integration, and bring-up and fleet tooling for rack-scale AI accelerator systems. You will hire and lead the team that delivers it, publishing a clean, versioned interface to the fabric manager, runtime, and schedulers.
What you'll do
- Own node, rack, and cluster bring-up software, including discovery, provisioning, configuration, and readiness gating in partnership with the fabric software team.
- Define and maintain a versioned interface between the platform layer and the workload stack, publishing normalized state, transitions, and events for devices and links.
- Drive fault detection and classification, establishing severity-based handling, escalation paths, and hand-offs to recovery owners and data center operations.
- Own firmware, BMC, and low-level platform software integration, packaging, and update flows.
- Deliver health telemetry, diagnostics integration, and fleet monitoring for deployed clusters while partnering with orchestration on device and fabric readiness.
- Hire and lead the platform software team, establishing technical direction, milestones, quality, and operational turn-up tooling.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years in systems software, including substantial experience with rack-scale, cluster-scale, or large server infrastructure.
- Track record of taking a platform or infrastructure program from design to shipped software with milestones.
- Depth across hardware bring-up, device and firmware interfaces, BMC and out-of-band management, fleet management, and fault handling.
- Hands-on experience with BMC and out-of-band management standards (Redfish, OpenBMC, PLDM) and firmware update frameworks.
- Experience building and leading engineering teams, managing cross-functional dependencies, and designing contracts between systems layers.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- Experience with accelerator or GPU infrastructure, including taking a new hardware platform from early silicon through first customer deployments.
- Experience with high-speed interconnect and fabric software such as PCIe, NVLink-class, CXL, RDMA, InfiniBand, or Ethernet-based fabrics.
- Experience with Kubernetes, device plugins, and cluster lifecycle tooling.
Skills: BMC, OpenBMC, cluster bring-up, Redfish, rack-scale, platform software
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 56-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1034
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Median days since first seen
56 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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| Metric | d-Matrix | All employers we track in this specialty (1034 roles · 94 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 1034 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 21 | 6617 · 157 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 36 d | 56 d (+20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: BMC, OpenBMC, cluster bring-up, Redfish, rack-scale, platform software
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 345 open roles · median 60 d
- Qualcomm · 56 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 36 d
- Graphcore · 47 open roles · median 117 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 14 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 22 d
How we counted: 1034 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 94 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.