Positron
Software Engineer, Control Plane (Senior/Principal)
$170K–$250K
Remote (United States) · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Relevant degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience with digital systems and board-level interfaces.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the U.S.; no new visa sponsorship is available, but H-1B transfers may be facilitated for eligible candidates.
About the job
Architect and build control-plane software connecting Positron’s AI inference hardware to system management, diagnostics, security, updates, and workload operations.
What you'll do
- Own platform features end to end, from architecture and implementation through integration, testing, and production validation.
- Build and maintain management services, APIs, hardware integrations, diagnostics, observability, and secure update and recovery workflows.
- Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and debug issues across software, Linux, firmware, and hardware.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical ownership of production systems software or infrastructure.
- Strong production Go experience and proficiency in at least one additional systems language, such as C, C++, Python, or Bash.
- Relevant degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience with digital systems and board-level interfaces.
- Hands-on Linux and hardware-interface experience, with demonstrated ability to design reliable distributed systems and secure platform software.
Nice to have
- Experience with BMC, IPMI, Redfish, embedded Linux, or comparable hardware management software.
- Exposure to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, hardware accelerators, high-performance computing, or large-scale AI infrastructure.
Pay
Senior: $170,000 – $250, USD base salary; Principal: $250,000 - $325, USD base salary
Tools
Go, C, C++, Python, Bash, Linux, OpenTelemetry, Consul
AI focus
Build control-plane software for AI inference systems; apply AI-assisted tools to implementation, test generation, debugging, profiling, code review, and documentation.
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