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Senior Systems Software Engineer

Fractile · Bristol and London

Fractile is building AI accelerator chips and systems designed to make frontier-model inference much faster. This engineer writes the management firmware and systems software that power on, monitor, update and protect its devices and racks.

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Company
Fractile
Where
Bristol and London
Function
Engineering
Posted
1 week ago
Seniority
Senior
Work mode
On-site
Categories
AI & MLDeepTechSaaS

The role

What you’ll do

  • Develop firmware and services for rack managers, BMCs and board controllers on RTOS and bare metal
  • Build the flows for provisioning, telemetry, safe updates, recovery and security
  • Integrate board and rack management with the drivers and runtime libraries
  • Work with hardware and device software teams to define interfaces and debug boundary issues

What you’ll need

  • A record of shipping reliable embedded systems on two or more of bare metal, RTOS and embedded Linux
  • Strong C and/or Rust and sound judgement on testing, failure modes and recovery
  • A degree in CS, EE, maths, physics or similar and 3+ years in industry
  • OpenBMC, Zephyr, secure boot or RISC-V experience is a plus

Good to know: Based in London or Bristol. Meaningful equity, private medical, dental and vision cover, pension, life insurance and 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays. Export control checks may apply.

Events for people in this role

Bristol events that suit this role. We haven't seen Fractile confirmed at these.

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Thu19NovNov'26: "Automation via fabric-toolbox" & "Fabric Apps When, Where & Why" EcosuretyAI & ML eventSaaS event
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About Fractile

DeepTech, AI & ML and SaaS. Backed by Accel (London), Kindred Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises. Stage: series_unknown.

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