Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®.
Job Req ID: 545767
Job Posting Title: Manager Software Engineering- Systems
City: Sunnyvale
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-System Software-Software Systems
Broadcom is developing next generation Wireless (Wi-Fi) products for consumer electronics, PCs, Access Points and broadband routers. Broadcom’s AirForce family of 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN solutions are enabled across many product platforms. Wi-Fi based products are very rapidly growing, driven by Broadcom’s innovation and technology leadership. We’re looking for energetic, enthusiastic and driven engineers excited about 802.11 wireless networking, network protocols and embedded system requirements.
We are looking for an exceptional talented hands on software engineering manager to lead the Host platform kernel technologies for Android products. The team is responsible for writing device drivers and necessary wl components for ARM to contribute to the success of BRCM mobility Wifi product lines. The person will be responsible for technical guidance and oversight around our device driver development for mobility products.
In this role you will:
* Manage a team of 5 individual contributors.
* Oversee development, enhancement and maintenance of our WLAN driver development.
* Propose and oversee optimization features for throughput and power savings.
* Communicate goals, requirements, technical direction, and status with local management and Marketing.
* Provide technical mentor-ship for local and remote teams.
* Manage design, implementation, test and debug of new Linux kernel and application features.
* Resolve system level performance, size, and memory issues related to Linux OS.
REQUIREMENTS:
* Typically requires a BS degree and 12 years of experience or an MS degree and 9 years of experience or a PhD and 6 years of experience.
* 3 plus years of technical management.
* Must have strong Linux, device drivers, PCIe development experience and have both experience and interest in technical leadership.
* Must have strong understanding of TCP/IP stack.
* Strong knowledge of kernel configuration and build, packaging, install and initial host platform bring-up is highly desired.
* Thorough understanding of system primitives such as timers: DMA, interrupts, cache configuration and device registration.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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