Junior Cloud Engineer

The Role

Openchip is building exciting new RISC-V chips with HPC and AI acceleration. As a Junior Cloud Engineer, you will actively participate within our cloud team to ensure our chips can be orchestrated, observed, and managed from the cloud by delivering Kubernetes device plug-ins, exposing to observability stacks, and integrating with cloud hosted fleet management frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:
  
  

– Deliver Kubernetes Device Plug-ins and extensions to ensure our platforms and microservices running on them can be orchestrated and managed from the cloud.

– Integrate on cloud hosted Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE, etc.), local upstream downstream (RedHat OpenShift, SUSE Ranches, etc.), and light-weight Kubernetes distributions (K3s, MicroShift, etc.).

– Implement workload placement methods to maximise the performance of Cloud and HPC workloads on our platforms.

– Deliver cloud observability of our platforms by integrating into popular frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.) ensuring our platforms meet Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) needs.

– Integrate with popular Fleet Management frameworks for managing fleets of our platforms running in Kubernetes Clusters.

– Work with eco system partners to integrate into their stacks (RedHat OpenShift, Canonical Kubernetes, SUSE Rancher, etc.).

– Utilize cloud services (compute, storage, databases, networking, etc.) to build scalable applications. Develop APIs and integrations for cloud-based services.

– Develop, test and integrate on our pre-silicon (simulators, emulation, FPGAs) and silicon environments.

– Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud applications.

– Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment processes and manage releases.

– Ensure applications and infrastructure are secure, adhering to best practices for identity and access management, encryption, and data protection.

– Stay up to date with cloud security standards and compliance regulations.

– Document technical specifications and system architecture.

– Contribute upstream where appropriate.

• Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
  
  

– Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.

– Work with teams developing compilers, firmware, AI stacks, and middleware, and contribute as necessary.

– Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,. . .

– Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations...).

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in the relevant field (1-3yr).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes device plug-ins.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience delivering cloud-hosted microservices at scale.
• Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools (ELK, Open Telemetry, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch, etc.).
• Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache, memory hierarchy, buses, etc.).
• Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with service meshs (ISTIO, Envoy, LinkerD, etc.).
• Experience with lightweight Kubernetes (K3s, K0s, MicroK8s, MiniKube, MicroShift, etc.).
• Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
• Experience with GitOps (Cluster + Apps + Policies).
• Experience with Kubeflow.
• Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.
• Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).
  
  

Soft Skills

• Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.
• Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
• Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
• Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to step up and resolve any obstacle.
• Self-aware, self-starter, and self-motivated.
  
  

We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change this industry and help to build a better world.

If you feel identified with Openchip, please contact us. We can offer a competitive compensation package in a flexible work schema that will help you to keep a balance between your personal and professional life.

At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.