Job Description

The Bitcoin mining Software Team will provide consultation and support to the ASIC and EE Teams during the development of a Bitcoin Miner ASIC and miner platform. The project is in the very early stages so the software team will support experimentation and prototyping in all disciplines. The team is small so the candidate will be expected to work in all areas of software development, including build, test and deployment on both embedded and Linux platforms in an open source environment. 

The QA/Test software developer will be responsible for creating the systems by which the ASIC, miner and software components will be tested and verified in isolation and as a system. As the team grows, dedicated QA personnel will be added to the team to operate the system and the developer may shift focus to other tasks.

You will: 

• Guide the team in judgment calls

• Work with the team to help develop features; debug and guide engineers through problems

• Participate in reviewing and finalizing technical decisions

• Be responsible for the technical architecture of features that go into our products

• Scope and evaluating new technologies/architectures/practices to solve new problems on our roadmap

• Champion and define team best practices

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience

• Firmware / Embedded software development experience

• Expertise in C software development, tools, and debugging

• Experience with Linux or Unix development

Preferred Skills:

• Experience using Python (or similar scripting languages) in automated testing, build systems, or device firmware communication

• Experience with real-time operating systems

• Experience shipping consumer electronics products

• Understanding of common communications protocols (e.g. Ethernet, SPI, UART, I2C, USB), debugging practices (e.g. JTAG and associated GDB integrations), and basic electrical design principles

• Degree in CS, CE, EE, or equivalent practical experience

Key Selling Points

• This role is working directly with both ASIC and EE designers to help choose the best way to implement features spread across hardware and software. Working with prototyping hardware requires the developer to have especially good instincts when debugging as the problem could be in the ASIC, the PCB or the software or any combination of them.