SENIOR ENGINEER - Embedded Linux

Embedded Software Engineer
Location: SMILES 2-Bengaluru-Bengaluru
Years of Experience: 3-5 Years
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Embedded Software Engineer with strong Embedded Linux knowledge to join our CPU/Platform Software Team. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing software components for RISC-V-based CPUs and platforms. You will engage in various aspects of the CPU/Platform software stack, including Bare metal, RTOS, Linux boot/kernel, reference libraries, tooling, simulators, FPGA-based bring-up, and performance benchmarks. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with multiple engineering teams to build both hardware and software from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement software in areas such as Linux kernel support for new architectures, device drivers, OpenSBI, u-boot, and Yocto/OpenEmbedded.
Develop customized Linux distributions for embedded applications.
Deploy existing benchmarks and develop new ones based on customer requirements.
Contribute to the wider RISC-V software ecosystem, ensuring support for the architecture in various open-source projects.
Utilize emulators and real hardware to analyze and optimize software, including the use of RISC-V?s vector instructions.
Conduct code reviews for complex contributions in relevant areas.
Collaborate with architecture and hardware design teams to enhance RISC-V CPU cores, providing inputs and driving architectural decisions based on software needs.
Maintain documentation and reference implementations for customer reliance.
Release SDKs and assist customers in prototyping their SoCs for evaluation and software development.
Mandatory Skills:
3 to 5 years of practical experience in embedded Linux development and debugging.
Experience in developing architecture-level code or device drivers in C for multiprocessor, multithreaded open-source kernels such as Linux or BSD, with upstream involvement.
Proven experience with upstream development on high-level operating systems like Linux.
Strong programming skills in C or C++, with basic assembly-level programming knowledge.
Understanding of basic Operating System concepts (e.g., virtual memory, interrupt handling, privilege levels).
Experience debugging complex multicore systems using tools like GDB, OpenOCD, and Lauterbach.
Familiarity with git, Makefile, GNU toolchain, and shell scripting.
Experience with device drivers, virtualization, IOMMUs, power management, or SoC platform security.
Ability to work collaboratively with hardware architecture and engineering teams.
Strong communication, teamwork, and listening skills.
Preferred Skills:
Familiarity with RISC-V ISA and knowledge of different Instruction Set Architectures (e.g., x86_64, ARM64).
Experience with CI/CD and agile tools (Jenkins, Git, Jira).
Some experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., QEMU or hypervisors).
Experience with LLVM backend or AI/ML accelerator compilers and delegate runtime environments.
If you are an innovative problem solver with a deep passion for embedded software and compute technologies, and enjoy building solutions from the ground up, we want to hear from you!

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