Staff Software Development Engineer – IO Diagnostic

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THE ROLE:

Developing great technology takes more than talent: it takes amazing people who understand collaboration, respect, and who will go the “extra mile” to achieve unthinkable results.  It takes people who have the passion and desire to disrupt the status quo, push boundaries, deliver innovation, and change the world.  If you have this type of passion, we invite you to take a look at the opportunities available to come join our team.

The Diagnostics Engineering team is responsible for CPU, APU and dGPU IP functional, system, and stress diagnostics.

THE PERSON:

We are seeking an experienced engineer to deliver diagnostics which test the industry leading high-performance interconnects IP subsystems (PCIe, System Hub, NBIF, NBIO, etc) and OS supporting IP subsystem (DMA, interrupt handling, etc). 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deliver forward looking IP coverage strategy and define comprehensive diagnostic test plan for cross BU programs with desired coverage metrics from Diagnostics.
• Study new features and new technologies in cross BU products and implement diagnostics test cases with high code quality and test time optimizations.
• Deliver diagnostics test suites to bring-up and enable ASIC features on both pre-silicon (emulation) environments and post-silicon hardware.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to achieve the key program milestones, such as bring up, all feature enablement, performance profiling, production support, customer issue debugging, etc.
• Forward thinker and has passion to drive for improving development processes, code quality and hardware diagnostic coverage.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Proven experience in firmware or software development with close interactions with hardware or product engineering team.
• Skilled C or modern C++ programming under Linux, including device driver, user space software, shell/perl scripts, GCC/JTAG toolchains, etc.
• Strong low-level software and system level debugging and test skills, and capability to quickly identify problems and provide robust solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SoC emulation and bring up is preferred.
• Good understanding of x86/ARM architecture and experience with BIOS, GPU, PCIe firmware development is a plus.
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

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

Location: 

Markham,ON

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