Senior Linux Software Development Engineer

Senior Linux Software Development Engineer

  Not Disclosed

  Austin, TX

  11.5 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Manufacturing

Job Description

Description:

THE ROLE:

• The client is looking for a specialized senior software engineer who is passionate about improving the performance of key applications and benchmarks. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology.

• Successful candidates will be working across an international software organization to enable systems used in machine learning, compute, and related components including developing and supporting Linux drivers, tools, libraries, and documentation applied to a full system architecture. You will be primarily focused on developing, implementing, and improving software critical for client data center products

THE PERSON:

• The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. Able to communicate effectively and work optimally with different teams across the client.

• We are looking for a passionate, creative, teammate, and result oriented engineer who is passionate about groundbreaking technology and willing to work in a fast-paced groundbreaking technology environment. A degree in computer engineering, software engineering, or electrical engineering who is interested developing, enhancing, and supporting Linux software desired. Willing to solve sophisticated problems is a must.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with client’s architecture specialists to improve future products
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
• Design and develop new groundbreaking client technologies
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
• Provide high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code
• Develop for continuous integration and automated deployments
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support of internal/external related drivers, libraries, tools, and documentation
• Create tools for automating building, testing, deployment, monitoring on Linux
• Debug and troubleshoot system-level issues and features
• Proactively drive continuous improvement in all areas of activity

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Strong object-oriented programming background, C/C++ and Python preferred
• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
• Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
• Familiarity with Linux GPU kernel driver development
• Familiarization with continuous integration systems such as Jenkins
• Knowledge and use of Git or similar version control repositories
• Experience working in the semiconductor industry
• Linux kernel development experience, either core kernel development or device driver development.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills
• Expert in developing and debugging system hardware and software or firmware for embedded systems
• Understanding of computer organization/architecture, Machine Learning, HPC
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

The top 3 requirements are:

• C/C++, Python for system level application programming with some experience working with drivers and firmware
• Linux and Linux distros (Ubuntu, Suse, RHEL)
• SW build and release processes and related tools, Ci/Cd, etc.