Member of Technical Staff, System Software (Runtime & Firmware)

About Unconventional

Since 2022, AI has entered the mainstream, reshaping entire industries from education and software development to fundamental consumer behaviors. This revolution has created an unprecedented demand for computation - a demand that is now fundamentally limited by energy, not just in the datacenter, but at a global scale.

At Unconventional, our mission is to solve this. We are rethinking computing from the ground up to build a new foundation for AI that is 1000x more efficient. We're doing this by exploiting the rich physics of semiconductors, mapping neural networks directly to the device physics rather than relying on layers of inefficient abstraction.

The Role

As a Member of Technical Staff, System Software (Runtime & Firmware), you will be a foundational member of our small, multi-disciplinary R&D team and have the opportunity to shape and build the software stack for an entirely new type of computer.

System Software is the integrator: we compose our novel compute fabrics and our silicon into a working system, and we build the software stack that drives it. “Extreme co-design” is our guiding principle: the stack, the architecture, and the silicon move together, and your work shapes all three from first principles. This role spans runtime software on Linux hosts and embedded firmware on SOCs. You don&