Lead Python Expert

Job description

We're Tropic Square https://www.tropicsquare.com, a Prague-based company designing open-source secure-element chips. We're looking for a Senior Expert for a software verification platform to join our hybrid team and help drive a long-term, open-source project at the intersection of software and hardware in the semiconductor world. You'll own core infrastructure decisions, shape architecture, and grow into a technical leadership role. If you're excited by deep technical problems with real-world impact, this might be the role for you. 👉 WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON - Developing and expanding our automated flows and hardware modelling framework - Building internal tooling and infrastructure that serves both the company and the wider open-source community - Driving architectural decisions and the long-term technical direction of the codebase - Exploring adjacent technical areas (verification, cybersecurity, EDA) as the work demands, with room to go deep where you're curious - Collaborating with internal teams and external contributors in a public, technically demanding setting ✍️ OUR STACK - Mostly Python, Bash, C, and whatever else the job calls for - Check out our Github https://github.com/tropicsquare/ts-tvl 💪 WHO YOU ARE - Senior software engineer with a track record of designing and maintaining complex systems - Either you've led a small team and want to keep doing it, or you're a senior IC with the instincts to mentor and steer without formal reports - Background or genuine interest in hardware, EDA, or embedded development - Experience or interest in security. We build in a domain where it's not optional - Comfortable thinking in terms of trade-offs and second-order effects, not just shipping the next feature - At home in a Unix/Linux environment and in open-source workflows (public reviews, issue trackers, async collaboration) 🤝 WHY JOIN US - A rare role where software architecture and hardware reality meet - Direct, visible impact on an open-source project used in real semiconductor development - Hybrid by default: work from the Prague office, remotely, or mix the two, whichever fits your life. We optimize for autonomy and deep focus - In-person team meetups in Prague are held a few times a year for planning and architecture work 👋 Interested? We want to hear from you! Just submit your CV, a brief cover letter, and links to your work. After the initial screening, you'll be directly in touch with your future team.