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Are you passionate about changing the world? We have a critical impact on getting high-quality, functional products to millions of customers quickly, and we are hiring at all levels — from junior to senior roles. As part of the Silicon Validation team, you will develop Linux device drivers and user-land tests for exercising and validating the various subsystems in complex SoCs.
Work closely with designers and architects to understand functional IP blocks and their use cases
Implement BSP and perform software bring-up on pre- and post-silicon platforms
Develop Linux device drivers and user-land tests for exercising and validating the various subsystems in complex SoCs
Debug and root-cause a variety of hardware and software issues
Experience in embedded Linux kernel development
Experience in C programming
Experience with ARM architecture
Familiarity with the Linux graphics stack (Mesa, Vulkan/OpenGL, GPU compute)
Experience validating GPUs with graphics and compute workloads, stress tests, or conformance suites (e.g., Vulkan CTS, igt-gpu-tools)
Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency/synchronization, memory allocation, and file systems) and networking or storage subsystem architecture
Device driver development and support across one or more of the following: USB, networking, graphics, video, storage, and power management
Debugging skills in kernel space
Experience exercising and validating systems from user space, including knowledge of user space APIs
Experience porting and/or maintaining a Linux distribution for a platform
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
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