About the Company
Canaan Inc. is a leading RISC-V chip design company powering the world's most efficient Bitcoin mining machines.
About the Role
We're looking for an Embedded Software QA Engineer to own quality for the mining machine software stack — validating BSP and firmware, testing the communication layer between mining machines and remote computing centers, and building the automation that keeps a large deployed fleet reliable. Location: US Hybrid · San Francisco Bay Area preferred
Responsibilities
- Own the test strategy, coverage goals, and release quality gates for mining machine software on RISC-V SoCs
- Validate BSP, U-Boot, and Linux kernel releases — boot integrity, recovery, and reliability across hardware revisions
- Test long-connection communication with remote computing centers under high concurrency, packet loss, latency, and reconnect scenarios
- Verify control, power regulation, and safety logic via fault injection and edge-condition testing
- Run sustained load, soak, and stress tests for hash rate, power efficiency, thermal, and memory footprint
- Build automated test frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) benches; integrate them into CI/CD with clear pass/fail gating
- Validate secure boot, device authentication, and communication encryption
- Reproduce, triage, and drive defects to root cause; support mass-production and field-return quality
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's or above in CS, Electronics, Automation, or related field
- 3+ years embedded software QA / test engineering, including at least one product cycle to mass production
- Familiarity with RISC-V or ARM Cortex platforms and Linux/U-Boot from a validation perspective
- Proven experience building automated test frameworks and HIL benches
- Hands-on validating UART/SPI/I2C, NAND/NOR Flash, Ethernet, WiFi/BLE
- Strong TCP/IP, MQTT, HTTP knowledge; experience testing long-connection, high-concurrency communication
- Proficiency in Python/Shell; able to read C/C++
- Experience with CI/CD for embedded testing
Nice to Have
- Bitcoin miner or HPC chip validation experience
- Fault injection, fuzzing, or protocol conformance testing
- RTOS (FreeRTOS / RT-Thread) and Canaan RISC-V MCU (K210, K230)
- Yocto / OpenEmbedded
What We Offer
Competitive salary and equity · world-leading Bitcoin mining hardware powered by Canaan RISC-V chips · collaborative team with mentorship · flexible hours and remote options · conference and training support.
