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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer in Arista’s BIOS team developing low-level CPU firmware and BIOS software for Arista products. Leading new CPU integration, testing, and feature development in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, integrate and maintain the low-level CPU software in Arista products.
  • Develop automated tests using C, C++ and Python to validate your features.
  • Work with hardware engineers and vendors to qualify new CPUs and related components for use in Arista products.
  • Track ongoing developments in the Linux Kernel and identify features and functionality of interest to Arista for our products and for internal development needs.
  • Work with upstream open source BIOS communities to contribute features back to the mainline.
  • Review and contribute to functional and design specifications written by other engineers.
  • Work with Customer Support Engineers and customers to analyze, mitigate and fix problems in customer networks.
  • Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems.
  • Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools.
  • Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista’s software development environment.

Requirements

  • BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 8 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 6 years experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 3 years experience, or equivalent work experience
  • Expert knowledge of and extensive experience programming in C required.
  • Knowledge of C++ and Python is desirable.
  • Experience designing and developing software in CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader environments.
  • Experience bringing up new CPU boards.
  • Significant hands-on experience diagnosing problems, troubleshooting issues, and fixing bugs in low-level CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader software.
  • Familiarity with Linux kernel architecture, design and implementation desirable
  • Understanding of IP networking architecture, design and principles desirable
  • Applied understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong software design and implementation skills.
  • Ability to work independently and in small teams.
  • Ability to communicate articulately, and document your designs and implementations clearly and concisely.
  • Familiarity with and experience working with the x86 and ARM CPU architectures

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Wellbeing
  • Income protection
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

LinuxOpen SourcePython

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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