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Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.\nJoin Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.\nWhy Verda\nCash and equity compensation along with local benefits.\n\n40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nA real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nPracticalities\nWork mode: Remote (EU)\n\nEmployment type: Full-time, permanent\n\nStart date: As soon as possible\n\nAbout the role\nInstead of traditional systems engineering, your focus will be entirely on the silicon and low-level software layers. You will design, build, and maintain the automation frameworks that keep our entire fleet up to date-covering everything from motherboards and Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) to high-performance InfiniBand fabrics and GPU clusters. In our \"move fast\" culture, your job is to build the safety nets (health checks, canary deploys, and automated rollbacks) that allow us to update hardware rapidly without taking down the cloud.\nYour Responsibilities\nFleet-Wide Firmware Orchestration: Design and execute automated, zero-touch firmware update pipelines across our global fleet of servers, switches, and accelerators.\n\nHeterogeneous Hardware Management: Own the firmware lifecycle for multiple hardware profiles, including Systemboards (BIOS/UEFI), BMCs, InfiniBand HCAs, Network Switches, and high-performance GPUs.\n\nRedfish & API Automation: Leverage Redfish and IPMI APIs to programmatically discover, configure, inventory, and update bare-metal assets at scale.\n\nBuild Blast-Radius Protections: Architect robust telemetry pipelines to assess hardware health post-flash, and build automated rollback mechanisms to instantly recover from faulty vendor payloads.\n\nTooling & Infrastructure as Code: Integrate firmware management pipelines cleanly into our existing configuration management ecosystems (SaltStack/Ansible) and provisioning workflows.\n\nVendor & Engineering Liaison: Deep-dive into hardware errata and bug reports, collaborating closely with hardware vendors and internal platform teams to patch critical CVEs and performance regressions.\n\nYour key competencies\nAutomation at Scale: Proven experience managing and updating firmware across thousands of nodes simultaneously. You don't do \"one-off\" flashes; you write code to update clusters.\n\nDeep Redfish Expertise: Mastery of the DMTF Redfish specification for server management, out-of-band communication, and telemetry collection.\n\nHardware Polyglot: Strong understanding of the architectural differences in managing firmware across systemboards, network stacks (InfiniBand/Ethernet), and GPU architectures.\n\nFailure Domain Expertise: A paranoid mindset regarding hardware health. 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