Staff Engineer - 10366 | Network Platform Development (Broadcom)

We are looking for an embedded systems expert doing platform system design and development with essential knowledge of the underlying hardware on any of the new generation networking products of Extreme Networks. This would involve integrating PHY drivers from multiple vendors, identifying and integrating OS changes/upgrades necessary and working on Linux networking components as well. Work can also be in platform framework with systems with virtual machine support using hypervisors or having Kubernetes based docker/microservices supported. This would also provide exposure to working on open-source components. So, this role requires to have a knowledge of the industry trends. As an individual contributor, one should be a team player and should work in a multi-site mode along with other teams in different time zones as well.

Responsibilities

Platform system design and development with essential knowledge of the underlying hardware on new generation networking products of Extreme Networks; Integrating PHY drivers from multiple vendors; Identifying and integrating OS changes/upgrades necessary; Working on Linux networking components; Working in platform framework with systems with virtual machine support using hypervisors or Kubernetes based docker/microservices; Exposure to working on open-source components; Having knowledge of industry trends; Working as an individual contributor and team player in a multi-site mode with other teams in different time zones.

Requirements

BE/B.Tech or ME/MTech preferably in the field of Electronics & communications or Computer Science; Work experience of 8 to 12 years; Good understanding of switch/router H/W and S/W arch and knowledge of networking domain; Experience in platform infrastructure & embedded software device driver development in switches/ routers; Familiar with Broadcom MACs and PHYs and Barefoot components and their SDKs; Familiar with Baseboard management Controller(BMC), IPMI; Familiar with Ethernet ports and optics with speeds up to 400G/800G, breakout capabilities, auto-negotiation, FEC; Experience in working with linux networking components; using ONL/ONLP, IPMI, etc is essential; Worked on Linux device driver for various devices and interfaces - FPGA/CPLD, I2C, SPI, MMC/SD, PCI, USB, SATA and be familiar with DMA and interrupts in Linux; Debugging skills - using GDB, Kernel and drivers level debugging and application level debugging; Programming in C, C++ and scripting language (shell script and python); Source version control tool and environment - GIT and Jenkins.

Nice to have

Linux build infra and tools including exposure to Linux embedded boot environment - uboot, ONIE, UEFI/BIOS would be helpful; Experience in VMs and Dockers with microservices architecture would help.