Senior Staff Software Engineer (Linux Kernel device drivers, Network drivers)

About Marvell

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, automotive, and carrier architectures, our innovative technology is enabling new possibilities. 

At Marvell, you can affect the arc of individual lives, lift the trajectory of entire industries, and fuel the transformative potential of tomorrow. For those looking to make their mark on purposeful and enduring innovation, above and beyond fleeting trends, Marvell is a place to thrive, learn, and lead. 

Your Team, Your Impact

Marvell is a leading provider of innovative storage technologies, including ultra-fast read channels, high-performance processors, leading edge transceivers, highly efficient analog designs, and powerful cryptographic engines. These solutions address all segments of the hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) electronics markets, providing complete solutions including controllers, product firmware, and reference board designs. Many of the same technologies have been utilized in Marvell storage system solutions products, powering PCs, servers, cloud, and enterprise systems.

This team that is based out of Hyderabad / Bagalore is looking for talented, self driven and motivated hands-on engineer to work on developing software for Marvell's Octeon series of silicons. Scope of the work involves developing device drivers, work with hardware team in defining new silicon architecture / features, work with marketing team in addressing customer reported issues.

What You Can Expect

• Primary responsibility is to design and develop software for Marvell Octeon series of silicons.

• Interact with customers to understand their requirements and add new features to existing drivers.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams across multiple locations.

What We're Looking For

• Experienced in Linux kernel device driver development.

• Understanding and working experience on developing Kernel networking drivers (netdev)

• Experience with network packet classification concepts, TC utility is a plus.

• Experience with hardware offloads for packet scheduling and shaping is a plus.

• Familiar with PCIe concepts, SRIOV capability, knowledge of Linux PCIe subsystem

• Should be familiar with Linux kernel memory management, interrupts, IOMMU concepts.

• Experienced in Linux kernel architecture, memory management, scheduler, synchronization techniques etc.

• Familiar with Linux performance monitoring utilities like perf.

• Prior experience of upstreaming patches to mainline Linux kernel is a plus.

• Excellent programming skills in C

• Excellent software design, problem-solving, debugging and documentation skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 6-12 years of related professional experience.
  Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 4-10 years of experience.

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements

With competitive compensation and great benefits, you will enjoy our workstyle within an environment of shared collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity. We’re dedicated to giving our people the tools and resources they need to succeed in doing work that matters, and to grow and develop with us. For additional information on what it’s like to work at Marvell, visit our Careers page.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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