Job Description

Ventana Micro Systems is at the forefront of the 2 hottest trends that are revolutionizing the semiconductor industry: RISC-V and Chiplet Architecture. Check out our CEO talking with global tech analyst Patrick Moorhead about how Ventana combines the extensibility of RISC-V with chiplet technology to create customer-driven innovation for best-in-class solutions for the data center. The company is well-funded and backed by some of the largest strategic investors in the industry with the goal of building best-in-class CPU cores for cloud, enterprise, 5G, and Edge computing. We invite you to join the revolution and contribute to one of the hottest Semiconductor startups in the industry. Level: Staff/ Senior Staff/ Principal, Multiple Openings Locations: Pune, Bangalore & San Francisco Bay Area Position: Full time with immediate start Requirements:

• 8+ years of software development with C and C++ languages in a U-Boot/UEFI and Linux in an embedded or server environment
• Hands-on programming experience with the Linux kernel internals, device drivers for multi-core SoCs, Linux networking and PCIe sub-systems
• UEFI BIOS/EDK2.1 experience and low-level embedded firmware development experience
• Hands-on experience with the GNU/LLVM tool chain and debuggers like GDB
• Hands-on programming and debugging experience with board bring-up and BSP delivery
• Experience in performance optimization at the firmware, bios, kernel and application layers including hardware accelerators
• Ability to work independently and across geographies with hardware, SQA and product management teams
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related engineering fields

Desirable Skills & Qualifications:

• Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86
• Knowledge of Linux power management, Linux Reliability-Availability-Serviceability (RAS) framework, DPDK, Control Plane, SMART NIC, Networking Fast Path and the Linux Storage stack
• Development experience with Virtualization and Hypervisors including KVM and QEMU
• Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment
• Knowledge of open-source Linux, source code upstreaming, git repository maintenance and source code management and kernel.org flow understanding
• Linux Kernel driver design
• Hands-on implementation with writing new PCIe or ethernet drivers in Linux
• Porting an existing driver from one architecture to a different one
• Linux Kernel crash debug
• How to add instrumentation to root cause the issue to a software or hardware bug.
• Linux Kernel Memory, Clock, Timers, Interrupt sub-systems
• Linux Kernel performance optimization
• Knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
• Understanding of AL/ML frameworks like TensorFlow will be an added plus

Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. We encourage employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted, if eligible) against COVID-19. We do require Proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR test) in order to work in the office or meet with customers/business partners. Notice to External Recruiters and Staffing Agencies Ventana instructs agencies not to engage with its employees to present candidates. Employees are not authorized to enter into any agreement regarding the placement of candidates. We will consider all unsolicited resumes received will be treated as gratuitous submissions. We reserve the right to directly contact any candidate speculatively submitted by a third party outside of our approved preferred suppliers. Such contact will not constitute acceptance of any contractual arrangement between Ventana and the agency, and Ventana will not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. To submit candidates or earn a fee – all external recruiters and staffing agencies are required to have a valid contract executed by Ventana’s CFO. Please Note: Fraudulent job postings/job scams are increasingly common. Our open positions can be found through the careers page on our website.