Corporate security is often perceived as a department of "no", where decisions are made by pointing out what is wrong, controls are designed to shift blame, and success is measured by checking boxes rather than reducing risk. At Oxide, security is understood to be an engineering discipline. When something is risky, the job is to say "yes, and here’s how it could be done," and the controls we operate exist regardless of whether a spreadsheet says it should.
We produce a product whose premise is that customers can trust what we ship. The security of our build pipeline, our signing infrastructure, and the systems we work on every day is critical to customer trust in Oxide. We’re looking for a security engineer to own security of how Oxide operates: the SaaS providers we depend on, the endpoints we work from, the internal services used for operations, our offices, the signing ceremonies that protect our most sensitive key material, and building automation to support the security of our operations.
Manage the security lifecycle of third-party SaaS providers: user provisioning, access control, configuration, security review and ongoing tracking for compliance commitments.
Manage endpoint security for corporate machines, including MDM, help reason about where management tooling makes sense and where it doesn’t.
Secure and help operate internal corporate services: access control, log forwarding, service hardening, vulnerability management, backup and recovery.
Build automation for compliance evidence gathering, turning audit requests into automatic or easily repeatable processes.
Participate in security incident response: triage events, investigations, report writing, and general process improvement.
Manage security controls of physical office spaces.
Support offline keystore operations: planning ceremonies, writing and maintaining the tooling, take role assignments as needed for ceremonies.
Design backup and recovery solutions and perform periodic recovery testing.
Work directly with auditors and compliance partners and finding the balance between workable systems and compliance requirements.
These responsibilities are just a starting place! We’re a small company, we don’t have rigid roles, and we have a lot to do - we can help you grow wherever your interests take you.
Believe security’s job is to say "yes, and here’s how", not "no, and here’s why". When something is risky, you respond with actionable recommendations for doing it safely, rather than focusing on why something wouldn’t work.
Are allergic to checkbox security. You care whether controls actually reduce risk, not whether it lets someone claim they weren’t responsible when things go wrong. You’re willing to own the outcomes of your recommendations, including those that don’t pan out.
Have an attacker’s instincts, ideally sharpened by hands-on offensive work. You ask "how could someone get around this?" before asking "does this satisfy the requirement?"
Treat compliance as an engineering problem. The compliance controls you manage are only those that you’d want anyway, regardless of compliance requirements. You would rather write tooling for compliance evidence gathering than periodically collect screenshots.
Believe in the importance of fully documenting your ideas, and you enjoy reading documentation produced by others.
Are eager to own cross-function initiatives across the company, working with various teams to design and implement solutions that work for everyone.
Look forward to running the MDM program at Oxide.
Are comfortable being a generalist.
Are proficient with Rust programming.
Are comfortable in Unix, Mac and Windows environments.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work. A few recommendations:
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
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.
At Oxide, we see every issue in the datacenter as our own, whether it’s hardware, software, or the interaction between the two. Supporting customers in the field goes beyond just replacing hardware: we’re solving problems end-to-end, building trust, and making sure our systems deliver as promised. We are looking for candidates located in the Midwest.
Work closely with customers to deliver timely onsite support — from rack installation to hardware replacements and upgrades — while also troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues to quickly remediate failures.
Perform hands-on work directly on production racks, balancing care, precision, and speed while ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations.
Work closely with our Manufacturing and Operations teams to coordinate replacement parts — ensuring the right components are ordered, shipped, and ready when you arrive onsite.
Manage and triage inbound customer communications, ensuring timely responses, updates, and resolution within SLA commitments.
Collaborate with Support Engineering and other teams to drive resolution, share learnings, and inform product improvements.
Document troubleshooting steps, solutions, and best practices for both internal and customer-facing knowledge bases.
Provide direct feedback from the field to help improve product quality, reliability, and usability.
Act as a trusted technical point of contact for customers, whether onsite or remote, building long-term credibility and trust.
Participate in regular on-call rotations to provide support (onsite and remote) for critical customer issues.
Strong proficiency with Unix/Linux system administration (Solaris/illumos experience a plus).
Solid understanding of server architecture, including compute, storage, and networking fundamentals.
Hands-on experience working safely and confidently on racks in production environments.
Hands-on experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
Exposure to cloud orchestration platforms and API-driven operations.
Experience debugging distributed systems and working across hardware/software boundaries.
Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing) and system performance tuning.
Ability to interpret logs across the stack to diagnose and resolve issues.
Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of each customer, and measure that success in their terms.
Have deep, hands-on experience in datacenter environments or enterprise IT operations.
Know your way around servers, storage, and networking gear.
Possess strong troubleshooting skills across both hardware and software domains.
Are ready to travel often, including on short notice, to be there for customers onsite, while continuing to support them remotely when not in the field.
Are comfortable lifting and installing datacenter equipment (up to 50 lbs).
Are capable of triaging and prioritizing multiple tasks and issues.
Are deeply curious about the customers that you work with, seeking to understand what makes their businesses thrive and what challenges they are facing.
Pride yourself in developing a deep understanding of the product you are supporting, and are excited at the prospect of being able to run it yourself!
Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deep into them.
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
Are passionate about helping to shape a new product in these early days.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch What is the Oxide Cloud Computer? from Cloud Field Day to understand the product that we have built and why.
Watch What Does Oxide Value Mean to Oxide Computer Company? from Cloud Field Day to understand how we think of the value that we deliver to customers.
Listen to (or watch!) Uncrating the Oxide Rack on the Software Misadventures Podcast to learn about our perspective on go-to-market (and to see the crate!).
Listen to (or watch!) Inside Oxide on Changelog & Friends to learn about the current expansion of the company and team.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing on the challenges of scaling to meet overwhelming demand.
Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria on our approach to engineering the integration software that customers need.
Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered! on the occasion of shipping our first rack in the summer of 2023.
Launching the Cloud Computer on our general availability of the Oxide rack later in 2023.
RTO or GTFO on our perspective on the rash of RTO mandates.
Reflecting on Founder Mode on the widely-read Paul Graham piece.
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor is reflected in the quality of our customer engagements; ensuring that we see issues all the way through to resolution.
Our transparency can be seen in how we engage and communicate with our customers.
Our responsibility means that we are accountable for all aspects of making our customers successful; whether that is mapping out a new project or shepherding a support ticket through to a positive resolution.
Our curiosity drives our desire to learn everything we can about our customers and the market dynamics of the industries they operate in.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you an electrical engineer who loves the idea of debugging hardware and developing new methods of testing products? We are seeking an engineer to be our lead onsite Test Engineer to ensure our product has been properly built and can perform all necessary functions.
While Oxide is a remote-friendly company, we think that being physically present during manufacturing is essential to building a great product and strong relationships. This role requires regular on-site presence at our contract manufacturer (CM) in Rochester and Winona, Minnesota (up to 5 days per week). Relocation package is available.
Be the Oxide onsite Hardware Test Engineering subject matter expert. Oxide designs the compute sled, switch, power management controller, and rack integration – and this role will help lead the CM with debugging and troubleshooting these complex hardware systems.
Validate new test functions before transitioning to production.
Work closely with our manufacturing software teams to understand how our systems test our product and provide your inputs on how to improve our test design
Be expected to interface with these systems as you test and troubleshoot our product
Learn about every piece of Oxide’s hardware, from the smallest PCBA to the rack-level, including reading schematics and drawings to understand the system
Participate in new product introduction (NPI) bring-up and participate in development planning with the engineering team for manufacturing and test
Recommend hardware and equipment needed to develop test system bill of materials (BOMs).
Work with the hardware design team to provide DFx feedback and integrate it into Oxide’s product
Work with the team to provide inputs and recommendations for procedural guidance for test documentation
Work with Oxide and CM Quality functions to debug trending failures and provide insight into root cause analyses
Have previous electrical hardware testing and debug experience, specifically in an environment with rapid new product introduction
Are comfortable digging into technical issues with no known solutions, but not too proud to ask for help when it is needed.
Know how to use oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, logic analyzers to debug complex hardware issues
Have experience shipping reading and manipulating software in Rust and bash
Love getting into the weeds of circuit design and love finding new and innovative ways to simulate and test board designs
Have developed and deployed solutions to test extremely high speed data paths
Want to work with the latest technologies, even if you know doing so might come with very limited documentation and having to figure out things yourself
Have experience with leading edge PCB technology and electrical design as well as familiarity with the following areas: DDR4/5, PCIe and I2C/SPI/UART buses
Get energy from enabling robust manufacturing in a rapidly growing company
Have a strong curiosity and drive to achieve the impossible when someone says it can’t be done
Believe in fully documenting your ideas
Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others
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 of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
link: Cabling the Backplane for details on how we developed a unique architecture solution for our rack.
Raiding the Minibar is 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.
link: The Oxide Supply Chain for insight on how materials impact our manufacturing.
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.
Are you an engineer who loves building autonomous systems to help your colleagues succeed? We are seeking a software engineer to join our operations team and provide company wide support by expanding on our existing systems and building new ones.
Design data models that underpin internal systems used by Oxide employees every day and unify data from multiple external stores with Oxide internal data.
Build new tools for our go-to-market and support teams that enable them to provide top tier service to our customers.
Expand upon our existing Oxide Backend Services to cover all parts of the product lifecycle, from design and manufacturing to fulfillment and warranty.
Collaborate with our contract manufacturing partners to design and build data pipelines to give Oxide a single holistic view of our manufacturing programs.
Develop automated systems to perform tasks and operations that are done manually today.
Write backend and frontend systems in Rust and TypeScript.
Provide world class support to your colleagues across a diverse range of internal services and SaaS solutions.
Operate and build upon access control across the company to ensure teams are safe and secure in their daily tasks.
Monitor and maintain availability of internal services. Participate in the on-call rotation for critical services.
Collaborate with colleagues in the decision making process for when to build versus buy systems. Organize and orchestrate the rollout and deployment of both internal and SaaS solutions.
Identify areas for improvement in operations at Oxide, and find solutions to improve their resilience, rigor, and efficiency.
Work with every team at Oxide and solve problems across the organization.
Empathize with others and love building the solutions that make work easy and fun.
Feel a sense of responsibility for the success of your colleagues, and measure that success in their terms.
Have written code in Rust and Typescript. Have previously built automation to improve your colleagues' workflows.
Have experience working directly with the APIs for SalesForce, Zendesk, NetSuite or other data storage SaaS stores.
Love automating yourself out of jobs to have time to help out in different areas.
Are excited about playing with third-party APIs, writing API clients, and integrating with the systems that Oxide uses.
Have hands-on experience using LLMs for engineering tasks and developed an understanding of when to rely on them
Believe in fully documenting your ideas and like reading the documentation produced by others.
Are very comfortable at a Unix terminal.
Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deep into them.
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computer front panels.
Learn enough about our technologies and our product to understand our approach.
Read about some of the tools we use to build internal services. Such as:
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 of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide on an example of the kinds of services you can work on
When Async Attacks! on a particularly pathological performance problem and the tooling we developed to understand it
Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.
Hell is Other Networks on our technical approach in debugging production systems
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.
Do you love operating systems kernel implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets machine? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our illumos-based host operating system, Helios. Helios sits at the center of the Oxide rack, interfacing directly with a wide range of hardware, embedded software, and third-party firmware to support the Oxide control plane, hypervisor, and its virtual machine instances. The host OS is holistically designed to begin execution with the processor’s first instruction; it uniquely subsumes and replaces functionality that UEFI and ACPI firmware provide in other architectures.
Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software on current and future Oxide computers
Read and write code in C (for the operating system writ large), in Rust (for for some in-kernel components and for higher-level services), and/or microprocessor assembly. All the code you write will be open source.
Grow and apply your understanding of microprocessors, through deep familiarity with available documentation, interacting directly with real hardware, and producing your own documents where the vendor’s fall short
Contribute to the security and resiliency of the system by designing for failure from the ground up
Participate in a rigorous code review process and help your colleagues maintain our software in a production-ready state at all times
Apply a customer-centric view to the development of new end-to-end features and functions and help realize them across the stack
Contribute to the design of new Oxide hardware and software components elsewhere in the stack
Have experience in operating systems kernel development
Seek the versatility of working from core OS architecture to hardware interface to networking to device development.
Enjoy the freedom of blazing your own architectural trails and solving problems from first principles
Are up to the challenge of interfacing with hardware that has missing or inaccurate documentation
Appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause
Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
Make the tools you wish you had
Communicate effectively with engineers across a range of disciplines to exchange knowledge and expertise
Experiment with an illumos-derived operating system, familiarizing yourself with tools like DTrace and MDB to explore the system
Prowl around the code in Helios
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 of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Holistic Boot on our approach to BIOS-free booting
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino) on the work we’re doing for AMD’s Turin microprocessor
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug on tracking down a long-standing data corruption bug in ZFS
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.
Do you love both networking and operating systems implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets the wire? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our illumos-based host operating system, Helios with a specific focus on its networking aspects. We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience — and everything in between! To understand why we’ve taken this steeper path (and the advantages that it affords), listen to the team in its own voice in our Oxide and Friends discussion on rack-scale networking. We are seeking an operating system software engineer who is energized by this end-to-end approach, and excited about joining our team to develop new kinds of functionality only made possible by true hardware/software co-design.
Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software, with a particular focus on its networking aspects
Enhance/write drivers several different kinds of networking devices: merchant silicon-based NICs, switching silicon, FPGA-based NICs, etc.
Read and write code in C (for the operating system writ large), in Rust (for the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine and perhaps Propolis), and potentially some P4. All the code you write will be open source.
Help to improve the performance of the lowest layers of the networking stack, with much in scope: improved use of hardware offloads, software rearchitecture, implementation improvements, etc.
Are familiar with operating systems networking concepts and are comfortable in C and/or Rust
Have dealt with networks at the hardware layer — and operating systems at the network layer
Are excited by the idea of writing operating system kernel code that enables networking hardware features
Love to make networks perfom at their line rate, knowing that it requires rigorous analysis, potentially novel architecture, and careful implementation
Have previously worked in the guts of operating systems
Appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause
Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
Make the tools you wish you had
Communicate effectively with engineers across a range of disciplines to exchange knowledge and expertise
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.
Prowl around the code in Helios
Read IPD 45 Flow trees in the MAC datapath to get a flavor for the kind of work this role entails
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
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.
Are you an engineer who loves understanding and improving the performance of systems? We are seeking versatile engineers to work on the performance of Oxide systems wherever suboptimality is to be found: from the depths of hardware, through the operating system kernel and hypervisor and into the guest operating system — and to the highest levels of the application stack.
Work rigorously to understand existing limiters to performance, wherever those limiters may lie.
Prototype improvements to the system, be they small fixes, larger scale re-writes, or entirely de novo subsystems.
Work on systems of a variety of ages, spanning from decades-old to entirely new — and everything in between.
Work on systems primarily written in Rust and C.
Work with a wide variety of our systems software, including (but not limited to!) our host operating system (Helios), our hypervisor (Propolis), our block storage service (Crucible), our embedded operating system (Hubris), and our control plane (Omicron).
Work with a variety of hardware as needed to understand and model the performance ramifications of different architectural or component decisions.
Develop infrastructure and tooling to better understand systems performance.
Believe that every instruction is sacred, every instruction is great.
Love to hunt slow, broken code — and replace it with a vastly improved alternative.
Are deeply analytical and data-intensive.
Have used whatever tooling at your disposal to understand systems behavior (e.g., DTrace/eBPF, snoop/tcpdump, truss/strace).
Have implemented your own tools where the right tool didn’t exist (or otherwise needed to be extended).
Have experience shipping software written in Rust, C, or another systems-oriented language.
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 of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
When Async Attacks! on a particularly pathological performance problem and the tooling we developed to understand it
Mr. Nagle’s Wild Ride on a timeless performance tale, re-told anew
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service on our storage service and our approach to improving its performance
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri on how hardware comprises the ultimate limiter of performance — and why different approaches are called for by different problems
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.
Are you a strategic purchasing expert who thrives on making deals, managing supply risk, and keeping production moving? We’re looking for a Procurement Manager to own supplier relationships, negotiate long-term agreements, and ensure availability aligns with our build plans. You’ll interface with engineering, operations, and our contract manufacturing partners – making sure we have what we need, when we need it, at the right cost, and in the right place.
We are looking to add several category manager roles as we build out Oxide’s Procurement team:
Electronics Component Category Manager responsible for materials that populate our boards and power our racks end-to-end: semiconductors / ICs, passives, and power / thermal parts. This is where our highest-value, longest-lead time, and most allocation-sensitive parts live. An ideal background has a focus in semiconductors with significant exposure and demonstrated impact in compute & memory, but applicants with electronics experience without this focus may still be considered.
Mechanical Category Manager, responsible for the physical parts that make up our rack and systems: chassis, sheet metal, rack frame and rails, cabling and harnesses, fasteners, and related fabricated components. This is a world of drawings, tolerances, tooling, and custom fabrication partners, distinct from our electrical supply chain with dedicated ownership. We’re looking for someone with broad experience in metal forming, machining, molding and additional mechanical component manufacturing sourcing.
For both categories, we are looking for someone who can also own a wide surface initially and help define what focused category management looks like at Oxide. The scope is intentionally broad to start and will sharpen over time as the team grows.
Negotiate pricing, lead times, and long-term supply agreements with key component vendors
Track purchase price variance (PPV) and help finance and engineering understand cost drivers
Maintain up-to-date price lists, quotes, lead times, country of origin information, tariffs, and supplier commitments by part number and revision
Evaluate supplier quality, ensuring use of authorized distributors
Collaborate with our contract manufacturers (CMs) to translate production forecasts into material requirements and allocation plans
Work directly with suppliers to ensure availability, secure allocations, and preempt shortages for long-lead and critical parts
Track supplier performance on delivery, cost, and responsiveness, and escalate as needed to meet production timelines
Lead supplier negotiations while coordinating CM purchasing on our behalf
Reconcile material usage and purchasing activity between Oxide and our CM to ensure build readiness and cost accuracy
Define and improve procurement processes, documentation standards, and vendor onboarding workflows
Provide insight into market dynamics, sourcing alternatives, and risk mitigation strategies
Help define and improve procurement / material management processes and documentation standards
Work closely with planning and engineering to integrate part lifecycle, lead times, and inventory policies
Have experience managing procurement for complex hardware systems, either in the electronics / server industry or with a focus on mechanical enclosure components
Are skilled negotiating supplier agreements and securing commitments in constrained or single-source markets
Understand how contract manufacturers manage delegated procurement and material purchases
Enjoy digging into BOMs, spreadsheets, and quote packages to make sure the numbers are right
Communicate clearly, especially when tracking issues across engineering, operations, and finance
Are organized, persistent, and calm under pressure, especially when lead times stretch and allocations tighten
Are motivated by getting the right parts, at the right time, for the right price
Find creative solutions ranging from connecting with unresponsive suppliers to resolving component end of life
Are curious, detail-oriented, and calm in the face of ambiguity or unexpected challenges
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 of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment.
Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together.
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.
Are you a curious, detail-oriented person who loves shipping polished products? We are seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to work on a multi-disciplinary team to assure that Oxide ships the highest quality product to our customers.
You will contribute to the practice of reliability-oriented testing: designing experiments that surface latent bugs, availability gaps, and performance cliffs before customers encounter them.
Design and execute workload-driven stress tests, with a focus on workloads that replicate realistic production traffic patterns such as high connection-rate workloads, micro-burst traffic, large-flow saturation, multicast, and adversarial packet patterns.
Instrument, observe, and correlate metrics that help characterize and pinpoint system issues.
Drive chaos-monkey-style tests to simulate common hardware failure modes and control plane outages.
Investigate availability and reliability gaps, and produce reproducible failure reports.
Work with engineers across the software stack to triage findings and verify fixes and mitigations.
Improve the assurance infrastructure itself: scripts, harnesses, chaos tooling, and automated regression suites.
Have deep familiarity with troubleshooting traffic issues at different network layers and characterising performance and reliability of network data paths.
Are comfortable with low-level debugging, reading packet captures and reasoning from raw protocol state.
Enjoy hands-on work with test infrastructure.
Have a track record of finding non-obvious reliability bugs in complex systems.
Are proficient in at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Rust, Go) for building test harnesses and automating workload generation.
Enjoy writing: clear bug reports, knowledge articles, and technical documentation.
Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we operate. A few recommendations:
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the details of our implementation
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
The Network Behind the Network on the specific challenges of our service processor network
The Tale of Reverso on a particularly gnarly networking bug unearthed by a manufacturing test fixture
Systems Software in the Large on a multi-year effort to develop full-system update
When Nine Nines Isn’t Enough on a multi-year search for an evasive failure
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide on how we got to our writing-intensive culture
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.
Are you a passionate engineer that likes improving processes, keeping production flowing, and preventing non-conforming parts? We are seeking a quality engineer to be Oxide’s onsite presence as a Production Quality Engineer. You’ll work directly with our contract manufacturer (CM) quality and production engineering teams, leading the front line defense of Oxide products!
While Oxide is a remote-friendly company, we’ve found that being physically present during manufacturing is essential to building a great product and strong relationships. This role requires regular on-site presence at our contract manufacturer (CM) in Rochester and Winona, Minnesota (up to 5 days per week). Relocation package is available.
Prioritize communicating “early and often” as the Oxide onsite quality presence and point of contact for production quality issues
Take ownership over incoming material and production non-conformances, deviations, and production quality issues requiring Oxide support
Work with incoming material suppliers to prevent recurrence of material non-conformances
Provide clarity and advocate for Oxide’s expectations of quality attributes and requirements
Support production application testing for part qualifications
Work closely with our contract manufacturer’s manufacturing teams to understand manufacturing processes, identify risks, and take preventative actions
Learn about every piece of Oxide’s hardware, from the smallest PCBA to the rack-level, including reading schematics and drawings to understand the system
Execute resolution of 8D corrective actions for customer escapes tied to CM production processes
Recommend hardware and equipment needed to support onsite quality needs
Perform periodic line walks, collect feedback from CM production employees, and advocate for continuous improvement
Review and propose improvement of contract manufacturer’s production and incoming inspection plans
Work with Oxide and CM Quality functions to rectify underperforming first pass yields and identify root cause
Work closely with manufacturing and test teams to develop, maintain, and sustain processes and procedural documentation
Have deep experience supporting various commodities, including mechanical rack weldments, cables, PCBAs manufacturing, and other electronics relevant to server hardware (e.g. SSDs, DRAM, CPUs)
Have experience using traditional inspection methods (calipers, multimeters) and seek out ways to integrate more advanced inspection tools (CMM, VMM)
Can navigate mechanical and electrical manufacturing processes and tools to present solutions to our engineering teams
Are a strong verbal and written communicator. You will be an onsite representative for Oxide and you will be expected to provide concise and respectful communications across multiple levels and functions of our contract manufacturer.
Mastered tools and processes related to product quality and supplier quality
Have experience working with contract manufacturers in the electronics industry focused on highly complex printed circuit board fabrication and assembly
Enjoy digging into technical data (schematics, datasheets, drawings) to provide recommendations to engineering teams to address quality issues
Are able to balance cost, quality, and time as the situation dictates, adjusting priorities based on risk while driving for all material to meet customer expectations.
Have held of positions throughout design engineering, manufacturing, and quality
Have lived as a Manufacturing Engineer. We’re looking for someone that has a technical eye for developing processes and procedures and their career has evolved into holding suppliers to account in a quality role.
Possess ASQ or Six Sigma certifications
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 of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.
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.
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.
Are you someone who enjoys being at the intersection of technical and business problems? We are seeking a solutions architects who can work with Oxide customers, prospects, and partners to understand their needs and help show how Oxide can address them.
Work closely with Oxide customers and prospective customers, building deep relationships across their teams, determining their needs, and constructing the appropriate solutions to meet them.
Engage with a wide range of stakeholders within customer IT organizations, from executive and organizational leadership through application development, operations, security, architecture and deployment teams.
Develop comprehensive customer deployment plans, including data center facilities prep, network integration, operations tooling, and developer onboarding.
Take responsibility for a customer’s success from earliest planning through operational deployment and successful integration with their IT systems and teams.
Enjoy seeing technology used to solve business problems — and love filling in the gap between what a technology can do and what a business needs
Have experience in pre-sales roles in either (or ideally, both) on-premises and public cloud deployments.
Are intensely curious about different kinds of applications and modalities for customer deployment
Have a disposition towards showing a prototype of what a customer deployment and migration might look like
Enjoy communicating with a variety of audiences, with comfort discussing technical details and business value — and the connections between them.
Don’t mind coworkers getting really excited about decades-old computers.
Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.
Watch What is the Oxide Cloud Computer? from Cloud Field Day to understand the product that we have built and why.
Watch What Does Oxide Value Mean to Oxide Computer Company? from Cloud Field Day to understand how we think of the value that we deliver to customers.
Listen to (or watch!) Uncrating the Oxide Rack on the Software Misadventures Podcast to learn about our perspective on go-to-market (and to see the crate!).
Listen to (or watch!) Inside Oxide on Changelog & Friends to learn about the current expansion of the company and team.
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Scaling Manufacturing on the challenges of scaling to meet overwhelming demand.
Oxide’s $100M Series B on our Series B funding announcement.
Oxide’s $200M Series C on our Series C funding announcement.
Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria on our approach toengineering the integration software that customers need.
Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered! on the occasion of shipping our first rack in the summer of 2023.
Launching the Cloud Computer on our general availability of the Oxide rack later in 2023.
RTO or GTFO on our perspective on the rash of RTO mandates.
Reflecting on Founder Mode on the widely-read Paul Graham piece.
We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:
Our rigor is reflected in the quality of our customer engagements; ensuring the capabilities of our products and the needs of our customers are well matched.
Our transparency can be seen in how we document and communicate our product capabilities with our customers.
Our responsibility means that we are accountable for all aspects of making our customers successful; whether that is mapping out a new project or shepherding a support ticket through to a positive resolution.
Our curiosity drives our desire to learn everything we can about our customers and the market dynamics of the industries they operate in.
Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.
Are you an experienced Rust programmer who loves building, deploying, and debugging distributed systems? We are seeking software engineers to work on the Oxide control plane, the spinal column of our software that is responsible for managing and provisioning virtual machines, storage and networking.
Work on a robust distributed system, Omicron, that ships across an air gap to Oxide customers running racks in their own datacenters.
Write code mostly in Rust, read code primarily written in Rust with some C. The code you write will be open source, be it in Omicron itself or the many components with which it interacts, e.g. our block storage service (Crucible), our hypervisor (Propolis), our host operating system (Helios), our embedded operating system (Hubris), or another of our many software components.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly, systems-oriented engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
Work to understand and improve the performance of the services offered by the Oxide rack.
Develop tools to test and analyze complex systems, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Have experience shipping software written in Rust
Have experience working on distributed systems
Are energized by the thought of diving deep on neglected (but essential!) distributed systems topics like cluster attestation or live system software update
Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
Make the tools you wish you had
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.
Watch Update on Update to understand the challenge of systems software in the large.
Prowl around the code in Omicron
Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
The Saga of Sagas on how we implement workflow management in the control plane
A Crate is Born on how we think about software modularity and reuse
The Frontend of the Computer on our API-driven approach in the control plane
Get You a State Machine for Great Good on how we use property-based testing
Querying Metrics with OxQL on why we developed our own query language for the control plane
Debugger-Driven Development on how we have developed our Omicron debugger (omdb) in parallel with Omicron itself
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.
Do you love operating systems implementation, digging into the gritty interface where software meets machine? We are seeking a software engineer to work on our Rust-based VMM, Propolis, and its containing illumos-based host operating system, Helios. These technologies sit at the center of the Oxide technology stack, interfacing directly with a wide range of hardware, embedded software, and third-party firmware to support the Oxide control plane and its virtual machine instances. The Rust-based VMM is a de novo implementation based on the bhyve hypervisor.
Work with a helpful and experienced team to design, build, and bring up host system software, in-kernel virtualization, and the user-space VMM on current and future Oxide computers
Read and write code in Rust (Propolis), C (Helios), and/or microprocessor assembly. All the code you write will be open source.
Grow and apply your understanding of microprocessors, through deep familiarity with available documentation, interacting directly with real hardware, and producing your own documents where the vendor’s fall short
Contribute to the security and resiliency of the system by designing for failure from the ground up
Participate in a rigorous code review process and help your colleagues maintain our software in a production-ready state at all times
Apply a customer-centric view to the development of new end-to-end features and functions and help realize them across the stack
Contribute to the design of new Oxide hardware and software components elsewhere in the stack
Are familiar with operating systems or virtualization concepts and comfortable in C, Rust, or other low-level systems languages
Seek the versatility of working from core OS architecture to hardware interface to networking to virtual device development.
Enjoy the freedom of blazing your own architectural trails and solving problems from first principles
Have previously worked in the guts of virtualization technologies such as KVM, Hyper-V, bhyve, or related systems
Are up to the challenge of interfacing with hardware that has missing or inaccurate documentation
Appreciate the hard-won thrill of debugging a knotty problem to root cause
Believe in fully documenting your ideas for both current colleagues and your own future self
Enjoy reading excellent documentation produced by others
Make the tools you wish you had
Communicate effectively with engineers across a range of disciplines to exchange knowledge and expertise
Experiment with Propolis, using tools like DTrace to explore the system
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 of our episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Helios on the genesis of our illumos derivative as discussed in RFD 26
Holistic Boot on our approach to BIOS-free booting
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino) on the work we’re doing for AMD’s Turin microprocessor
Holistic Engineering on our integrated hardware/software approach
Virtualizing Time on the thorniness of getting time to work in a hypervisor
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.
Are you a software engineer with a disposition toward networked systems design or networking engineer with a disposition toward systems programming and software development? We are seeking engineers to join our networking team with a focus on modeling and verification of Oxide deployments, developing testbed technologies to emulate both Oxide systems and broader deployment environments, and work with our customer support team to prepare for new types of deployment environments.
As a cloud infrastructure company, our success is defined by our customers' success in deploying Oxide Cloud Computers that host critical business functions. There are many different types of environments our customers deploy Oxide systems into today and the heterogeneity and scale is growing rapidly. We take being prepared for any and all environments that Oxide Cloud Computers will deploy to very seriously. This role is all about that: being prepared. We view validation and verification of cloud infrastructure as an engineering discipline in its own right and are looking for engineers who share this viewpoint.
We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience — and everything in between! To understand why we’ve taken this steeper path (and the advantages that it affords), listen to the team in its own voice in our Oxide and Friends discussion on rack-scale networking.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly systems engineers to understand customer use cases and ensure the Oxide platform is ready for a wide variety of deployment environments.
Develop tools to emulate and analyze complex networks, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Write code in Rust, P4 and more. The code you write will be open source (e.g., Falcon, a Rust-based framework for modeling and deploying networked systems with emulated Oxide racks), and across many different codebases.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to model and verify how true rack-scales system interact their deployment environment, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
Have experience deploying and operating large-scale mission-critical network and compute infrastructure.
Have previously worked with Rust or another low-level systems language such as C.
Have implemented networking protocols in environments that were constrained by performance and correctness.
Have experience designing, implementing, deploying and operating data center networks using dynamic routing protocols and overlay networks.
Have experience with BGP implementation or deployment.
Enjoy the idea of owning the inter-rack networking end-to-end (host OS + NIC + switch + switch OS) – and also of integrating that networking with a customer’s larger network.
Are energized by the thought of jumping between implementing a new protocol (or a new implementation of an old one!), analyzing customer networking pathologies, and bringing kernel drivers to life.
Produce good documentation and/or written descriptions of your ideas.
Believe that the closed nature of low-level networking is a barrier to progress and want to work with a team breaking down that barrier.
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.
Watch Building a Rack Scale Computer with P4 at the Core and DTrace + P4.
Check out OPTE — and watch Kyle Simpson’s dtrace.conf(24) talk
Listen to some of our network-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the details of our implementation
The Network Behind the Network on the specific challenges of our service processor network
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
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.
Are you a software engineer with a disposition towards networking software who loves working up and down the OSI stack? We are seeking a software engineer to join our networking team. We are taking a very ambitious approach with respect to networking: not only have we developed our own compute sled and cabled backplane, we have also developed our own switch, and then the entire stack of software from the lowest levels of firmware to end-user experience — and everything in between! To understand why we’ve taken this steeper path (and the advantages that it affords), listen to the team in its own voice in our Oxide and Friends discussion on rack-scale networking. We are seeking a networking-focused software engineer who is energized by this approach, and excited about joining our team to develop new kinds of functionality only made possible by true hardware/software co-design.
Collaborate with other engaged, friendly systems engineers to understand customer use cases and implement the core of the Oxide platform.
Operate across multiple layers of the stack to build a true rack-scale system, including our integrated switch, a custom compute sled, and all software connecting and orchestrating them.
Develop tools to simulate and analyze complex networks, including those deployed in production at customer sites. Logging, tracing, and metrics are critical pieces of distributed systems, and you’ll get the chance to dig into them all.
Write code in Rust, C, and some P4. The code you write will be open source (e.g., the Oxide Packet Transformation Engine, an in-kernel Rust module for packet processing), and across many different codebases.
Have previously worked with Rust or another low-level systems language such as C.
Have a deep understanding of load balancing.
Have experience operating and developing IPsec-based VPN technologies.
Have implemented networking protocols in environments that were constrained by performance and correctness.
Have experience designing, implementing, deploying and operating data center networks using dynamic routing protocols and overlay networks.
Have experience with BGP implementation or deployment.
Enjoy the idea of owning the inter-rack networking end-to-end (host OS + NIC + switch + switch OS) – and also of integrating that networking with a customer’s larger network.
Are energized by the thought of jumping between implementing a new protocol (or a new implementation of an old one!), analyzing customer networking pathologies, and bringing kernel drivers to life.
Produce good documentation and/or written descriptions of your ideas.
Believe that the closed nature of low-level networking is a barrier to progress and want to work with a team breaking down that barrier.
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.
Watch Building a Rack Scale Computer with P4 at the Core and DTrace + P4.
Check out OPTE — and watch Kyle Simpson’s dtrace.conf(24) talk
Listen to some of our network-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:
Rack-scale Networking to understand our approach to networking and some of the details of our implementation
The Network Behind the Network on the specific challenges of our service processor network
Hell is other networks to learn about our disposition to customer problems
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces to hear our perspective on what software needs from networking silicon
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.