Senior Embedded Engineer

Luxor specializes in the physical delivery of hashrate (compute power). Over the past four years we have been acting as a buyer of hashrate, purchasing, and mining over $200mm worth. We currently have 80,000 machines that sell us their hashrate daily.

Company Background

We believe that proof-of-work is the future of decentralized blockchains and we want to help build the underlying infrastructure to support it. We are building a suite of products around compute power as an asset class. Our new venture is custom-firmware for cryptocurrency mining ASICs, a valuable and demanded product in the market.

This role will report directly to the CPO. This position is a mix of in-office (Seattle) and remote.

Senior Embedded Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Engineer to join our small, collaborative, and fast-moving team to work on one of the most rewarding projects in the crypto mining industry.

Job Requirements:

• Proven experience with cryptocurrency, including (but not limited to) an understanding of mining pools and mining software.
• Proven experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems.
• Ability to build with Python, Unix Shell (Bash), Linux and C.
• Understanding of communication protocols such as GPIO, I2C, SPI, USART and embedded Linux flavors.
• Experience debugging hardware with JTAG and other logic analyzers.
• English language proficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and build custom firmware for a suite of cryptocurrency hardware.
• Debug existing systems and develop interfaces to communicate with the underlying hardware.
• Design, develop and optimize system bringup, debugging and testing.
• Perform requirements analysis and author high-level and detailed requirements for the project.
• Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of underlying target hardware.
• Integrate and validate new product designs
• Support software QA and optimize I/O performance
• Interface with hardware design and development
• Assess third party and open source software

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