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About the Role
Are you a software engineer who loves the idea of working with a factory? We are seeking a software engineer to work on the manufacturing software we use to ensure our product has been properly built and can perform all necessary functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Write the code that implements our manufacturing software systems, from IC-level programming to final assembly system test for our rack
• Work closely with engineers across hardware, embedded, and OS development to gather test requirements and create test plans
• Collaborate with our manufacturing partners on usability, system implementation, and improvement opportunities
• Create production-quality processes for software release for manufacturing test systems
• Recommend hardware and equipment needed to develop test system bill of materials (BOMs).
• Build text-based UIs for Unix-based manufacturing line systems which indicate test progress and troubleshooting information, as well as send manufacturing data to backend services
• Create systems that can help Oxide leverage manufacturing data (such as debug assistance and defect trending) to support our production
• Get to learn about every piece of Oxide’s hardware, from the smallest PCBA to the rack-level system

Requirements

• Enjoy watching How It’s Made
• Have experience shipping software written in Rust
• Have previous hardware test experience
• Are energized the by the urgency of production while creating software that ensures product quality
• Want to enable test engineers to identify problems efficiently and keep production moving
• Enjoy considering human factors in your user interfaces and building for users with varying skillsets
• Communicate effectively with people across engineering, operations, and manufacturing

Before applying for this role, you should:

• Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.
• Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
• Listen to some episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
  • Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
  • Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line
• Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together
• Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız on building the kind of user interfaces that we use in manufacturing.

Life at Oxide
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

• Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
• Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
• Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
• Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
• Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
• Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
• Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

Working at Oxide
Remote first
Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.

Flexible working hours
Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.

Premium healthcare
We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.

Compensation
Everyone at Oxide makes $207,264 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)