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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Accelerator Software Engineer - **Company:** Etched, LLC - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Testing (Software), Board Bringup, Software Applications, Booting (BIOS), Data Transmissions, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Microprocessors, Dynamic Random-Access Memory, Memory Management, Ethernet, Fault Tolerance, Firmware, Linux Kernel, PCI Express, Software Engineering, System Software, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, PIC Microcontroller, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Information Technology - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bf0977aa8bc842c8 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) protocol?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. * Strong software development fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms. * Experience shipping and testing software on products that have gone to production. * Depth in firmware design, implementation, and debugging. * Familiarity with embedded architectures and the IO technologies that live at the silicon-to-host boundary - ARM, PCIe, DMA, HBM, DRAM, Ethernet, UART - and with systems concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency. Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications) * Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience. * Hardware bring-up on a new chip or board, for the first time ever. * Solving ambiguous, under-specified problems where the requirements emerge alongside the solution. * Experience using low-level computer architecture details, like caching or AXI fabrics, to enable software to make decisions at the nanosecond-level. * Strong communication, particularly when collaborating directly with engineers and across discipline boundaries. ## Description Sohu is the first transformer-specific ASIC, and this role owns the accelerator software that makes it usable. You'll work across the layers that bring the chip to life and connect it to the host: the firmware that powers it on, the on-die software that initializes and manages it, and the kernel-level interface that exposes it to the rest of the inference stack. The work spans three tightly-coupled domains; ASIC firmware, microcontroller firmware, and host-side kernel and drivers. We hire engineers who are deep in one area and curious about the others. This role spans across three work areas. You would specialize in one and contribute across the others as the team grows: * ASIC Software- Collaboration on ASIC architecture, on-device inference instruction execution, CPU initialization, bootloaders, IO drivers, thermal and power management, DMA data transfer, on-chip application software, and validation. The code that runs on the die itself on its various embedded CPUs. * Platform Software - microcontroller architecture and software for power sequencing, telemetry, and firmware update, and the foundational work that takes the chip from powered off to responsive. Involves close collaboration with the hardware team in the schematic and bring-up phases. * Host-side Kernel and Drivers - the host software that presents Sohu as a device the rest of the stack can program against. 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