Software Dev Senior Engineer
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Position Summary:
The candidate is responsible for board bring-up, design and development of software at kernel level, driver design and porting to new platforms. In addition, during the board bring-up phase this position requires tight interaction with the HW design team to understand design details, validate HW functionality and help to isolate HW problems if any.
The candidate requires understanding overall system functionality to design HW abstraction layers to provide transparency and interoperability for the application-level SW running across heterogeneous platforms.
High level architectural direction will be provided but the candidate must be able to work independently and proactively identify and solve the problems.
Responsibilities:
- Software design at BSP or kernel level
- Design and porting device drivers
- Board bring-up and bootloader development
- Understand functionality of the system to provide better HW abstraction layer
- Communicate with hardware team during board bring-up phase
- Document design details, collaborate with team members during design and review phase
Requirements:
- Knowledge of Linux kernel programming
- Knowledge/experience with u-boot
- Knowledge of kernel details, design in multitasking environment, synchronization objects, etc
- Knowledge of generic CPU architecture and infrastructure: core, peripherals, etc
- Prior experience in software design for multi-core/multi-blade systems is big plus
- Knowledge of C, GNU tools, Make, GIT. Bitbake experience is big plus
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash, Python, is a plus
- Basic knowledge of networking protocols: Ethernet, TCP/IP
- Good command of English is a must
Education & Experience:
- BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science
- 3+ years experience in BSP/kernel software design
- 8+ years experience in Software Development
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