Hardware Platform Engineer

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      "text": "Role Overview ",
      "content": "<div>You will own the hardware platform end-to-end, including evaluating and selecting computing and networking hardware, writing system-level tooling for performance monitoring and diagnostics, and ensuring our Linux environment is tuned for real-time, safety-critical workloads.&nbsp; You’ll define what hardware Revel runs on and prove that it meets our reliability standards before it reaches the field.</div>"
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      "text": "Responsibilities",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hardware Selection &amp; Qualification:</strong> Evaluate x86 and ARM computing platforms, networking equipment, and individual components (CPUs, SSDs, RAM, NICs) for deployment across demanding environments including test cells, benchtop setups, and remote field installations.&nbsp; Establish hardware qualification criteria including thermal behavior, firmware stability, I/O throughput, vibration tolerance, ECC support, and component lifecycle.&nbsp; Build and maintain an approved hardware compatibility matrix and manage vendor and supplier relationships.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Platform Bring-up &amp; OS Integration:</strong> Bring up Linux on new hardware platforms, including kernel configuration, device tree setup, and driver validation.&nbsp; Tune the OS for real-time performance with CPU isolation, IRQ affinity, and latency profiling.&nbsp; Contribute to the OS image build and deployment pipeline.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Fleet Health &amp; Diagnostics:</strong> Build tooling to monitor hardware health across a growing fleet of deployed systems such as tracking disk wear, thermal behavior, memory errors, firmware versions, and component lifecycle status.&nbsp; Instrument these tools to feed into observability infrastructure (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) for fleet-wide visibility.&nbsp; Develop diagnostic utilities for performance characterization and failure triage, both in-house and in the field.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Platform Security:</strong> Implement and maintain platform-level security including Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, disk encryption, and image signing.&nbsp; Design these controls for systems that operate in air-gapped environments with no connectivity to external services.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hardware Validation Campaigns:</strong> Design and execute qualification campaigns for new hardware platforms.&nbsp; Define test plans, acceptance criteria, pass/fail thresholds.&nbsp; This includes thermal stress testing, burn-in cycles, latency profiling, I/O reliability testing, and long-duration stability runs.&nbsp; Document results and make go/no-go recommendations for production deployment.&nbsp; Re-validate when vendors ship component revisions or substitutions.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Qualifications",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p><strong>Experience:</strong> 3–5 years of professional experience working directly with hardware in Platform Engineering, Systems Programming, or Embedded Systems.&nbsp; You should have hands-on experience evaluating, qualifying, or bringing up computing hardware.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hardware Depth:</strong> A deep, first-principles understanding of computing hardware. You’re the person who reads datasheets, catches firmware quirks, flags EOL risk, and knows why one SSD is reliable under sustained load and another isn’t.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Linux Fundamentals:</strong> Strong understanding of the Linux kernel, boot process, and system configuration.&nbsp; Experience tuning Linux for performance-sensitive or real-time workloads.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Systems Programming:</strong> Comfortable writing system-level tooling.&nbsp; You’ll build hardware diagnostic utilities, performance benchmarks, and monitoring tools.&nbsp; Our stack is primarily in Rust.&nbsp; Strong systems programming experience in C/C++ with willingness to work in Rust is welcome.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bring-up Expertise:</strong> Experience bringing up Linux on new hardware platforms, including BIOS/UEFI configuration, driver validation, and diagnosing boot and compatibility issues.&nbsp; Comfortable with kernel configuration and device tree.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p><strong>Nix / NixOS:</strong> Experience with Nix for reproducible, declarative system configurations.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Observability Tools:</strong> Familiarity with hardware monitoring via Grafana or Prometheus.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>CI/CD:</strong> Experience with <strong>GitLab CI</strong> for automating platform builds and validation.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Sector Experience:</strong> Background working with high-reliability computing systems such as aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, networking hardware, or hyperscale compute infrastructure.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Why Revel",
      "content": "<div>You will join a high-velocity team where your work is the literal foundation of our technology. We offer the chance to work on \"big iron\" hardware problems while utilizing a modern, sophisticated software stack. If you are a hardware enthusiast who loves the low-level details of kernels and controllers and wants to see your work deployed on the world’s most critical systems, Revel is where you belong.</div>"
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