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Dahl Consulting

Staff Software Engineer, Linux Kernel and Baseboard Management Controller Architecture

Posted 1 weeks ago

Job Description

  • Design and lead the multi-year effort to modernize Google’s next-generation Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software architecture, ensuring scalability across heterogeneous platforms (Compute, Storage, hardware accelerators like TPUs and GPUs).
  • Own the Linux kernel, networking stack, and installation systems for the BMC. Develop, debug, and optimize device drivers and core kernel subsystems across multiple generations of ARM-based or custom SoCs.
  • Partner directly with hardware engineering, accelerator (TPU/GPU) teams, and infrastructure groups to gather requirements, define architectural boundaries, and ensure seamless hardware/software integration.
  • Architect robust software pipelines to interface with complex board-level topologies using I2C, I3C, SPI, UART, USB, and CANbus.
  • Represent Google in the open compute project (OCP) and other industry bodies. Lead the definition, standardization, and internal adoption of the open boot management framework - infrastructure control protocol (OBMF-ICP).
Staff Software Engineer, Linux Kernel and Baseboard Management Controller Architecture at Dahl Consulting | Renata