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Senior / Staff/ Principal SOC Engineer - OS boot & Drivers

Job ID 2023-9183 Date posted Nov. 05, 2024 Location Bengaluru, India Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Description:

Arm has an excellent opportunity in the Solution Engineering group - which aims to develop best-in-class SoCs and compute subsystems based on IP from Arm and other vendors - targeting premium mobile, infrastructure, automotive, and IoT markets.

We are looking for highly-skilled engineers with experience in operating systems like Linux/RTOS to take ownership of booting Linux & brining up drivers on Emulation & FPGA platforms for the pre-silicon validation of next-generation compute solutions. You will work closely with architecture, design, verification, and software teams to bring up operating systems on SoCs & Compute Subsystems, and run applications on it.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand the SoC/subsystem architecture and take ownership of booting operating systems like Linux, RTOS, or Android to validate SoCs containing multi-core processors and high-speed IOs like PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, USB, etc.
  • Collaborate with SoC architecture and design teams to build the right test plans, modify device drivers, & develop tests to validate the design.
  • You will be expected to debug & fix sophisticated hardware and software fails on the SoC on Emulation/FPGA platforms and on silicon
  • Port or develop Linux drivers for different blocks in the chiplet, and make improvements wherever required for pre-silicon validation of the design.
  • Identify and port open-source benchmarks and applications on Linux, targeting domain-specific use-cases, and build additional tests where required to ensure bugs are found early in the cycle.
  • Mentor junior engineers and work as a team to deliver on validation goals.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • 6 + years of proven experience in relevant areas
  • Strong understanding of operating system kernels and how they exploit the hardware features, preferably Linux
  • Proven track record of debugging & root-causing fails in Linux bringup on Emulation/FPGA/silicon platforms
  • Hands-on experience in areas like device drivers & bootloaders or developing userspace application for validating features of a SoC
  • Excellent knowledge of C or C++ development with proficiency in optimizing applications, workloads, and compilers
  • Understanding of SoC validation

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Understanding of Arm architecture, Arm instruction set and tools, fast models
  • Familiarity with hardware acceleration platforms like Emulation and FPGA
  • Experience in scripting languages, e.g. Bash, Python, etc.
  • Experience in performance analysis

In Return:

Our offices are amazing places to collaborate. If you are interested, but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome versatile people into Arm!


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