R&D Engineer SW Development

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Job Description:

Role and Responsibilities:

• Engineer would be responsible for buiding system software components running on Linux/Fabric OS.
• The components would be part of the network datapath and platform elements.
• They can be user or kernel level components.
• Should be able to troubleshoot and support the datapath and platforms components for multiple parallel releases.
• Should be able to work with technical teams across geographies, and various time zones.
• Performance tuning of the datapath components to meet the scalability requirements.
• Porting the components to new Linux kernels.
• Address security vulnerabilities that are mostly in Linux.
• Work closely with the testing, documentation and customer support teams.
• Should be in position to travel for business needs (as per above roles and responsibilities)

Skills required:

• Must have 4-year undergraduate degree, and Master’s degree preferred, with Major or Minor in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Must have minimum of 10 years of work experience in a software product company.
• Should have worked on network datapath drivers in C under Linux environment.
• Should have complex network device platform bring up experience, hardware monitoring s/w development experience.
• Should have knowledge of atleast one scripting language, preferable Python.
• Exposure to assembly language, hardware system design is an added advantage.
• Network control plane protocol development experience is an added advantage
• Must be familiar with Software Development Life Cycle for a product that has multiple release streams, and must have gone through the software development process at least once in their past work experience
• Must have good written and verbal communication skills to take requirement, develop external functional specs, unit test plan, and implementation design specs

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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