Staff Systems Software Engineer, SMS

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

As a systems software engineer in Micron's Storage and Memory Systems (SMS) group within TPG Pathfinding, you will use a broad software engineering skillset to explore future memory architectures for high-performance compute (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

You will have an opportunity to work with proof-of-concept hardware systems that may include heterogeneous memory and compute systems, multi-host shared memory systems, GPUs and memory accelerators. You will be part of a small team of broadly skilled, highly motivated software engineers working together with AI/ML experts, hardware engineers and system architects to demonstrate the viability and usefulness of new technologies.

This role requires high flexibility and willingness to fulfill systems software engineering needs that vary significantly from task to task. Your contributions may include Linux system software development to enable use of new hardware system functionality, Linux driver development, embedded systems software development, hardware/software integration and lab bring-up, emulation or modeling software development, and application porting to new systems.

This hybrid work schedule position is located in Richardson, TX.
Your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Developing software that configures and enables proof-of-concept system hardware

• Developing applications and libraries in C++, C, Python, Rust, SYCL and/or CUDA

• Porting, optimizing, and analyzing parallel processing, scientific compute and AI applications and libraries for heterogeneous computer systems

• Improving software engineering processes and tools

• Collaborating with hardware and software engineers to root cause and fix complex integration issues with proof-of-concept system hardware in a lab environment

• Working closely with software technical leads, hardware leads and system architects to plan work and clarify emerging requirements

We are seeking candidates with the following: 

• (Required) Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent degree

• (Required) 7+ years of relevant work experience with Bachelor’s; 5+ years with Master’s; 3+ years with PhD

• (Required) C, C++, Python and shell script development experience

• (Required) Experience developing drivers and/or user-space applications to interact with low-level hardware primitives such as control and status registers

• (Required) Linux programming expertise including multi-threaded synchronization, inter-process communications, ioctl calls, gdb debugging, /proc and /sysfs filesystems, etc.

• (Required) Experience using system specification documents, hardware block diagrams, RTL interfaces and board-level schematics to derive software requirements and guide debugging

• (Required) Experience root-causing and resolving system-level issues that span application, library, kernel and hardware boundaries

• (Required) Strong understanding of computer system architecture concepts including compute and memory components, caching and virtual memory

• (Required) Experience using software team tools such as JIRA, Git, Jenkins or similar

• Experience setting up development environments and developing software for embedded systems is highly desired

• Understanding of parallel computing, shared memory and communication fabrics is highly desired

• Knowledge of memory hierarchies and GPU offloading in heterogeneous AI systems is highly desired

• Knowledge of filesystems and familiarity with emerging filesystems is desired

• Experience with GPU programming (i.e. CUDA, SyCL, OpenCL, PyTorch), or an eagerness to learn, is desired

• Experience with scaling and parallelization technologies and libraries, including the following, is desired: PCIe, CXL, NvLink, UALink, OpenMP, MPI, oneAPI

• Willingness to work on a wide variety of software assignments depending on changing, current needs of a pathfinding organization

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work in a team environment that includes both on-site and remote team members

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future.  We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget.  Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.  Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays.  For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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