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: 549122
Job Posting Title: Sr. Software Systems Engineer
City: Sunnyvale
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: US – California, Northern – Bay Area
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-System Software-Software Systems
Technical requirements:
-Strong working knowledge on 802.11-Strong networking background of Layer-2, Layer- 3 & Layer-4 (TCP& UDP)-Sound knowledge of device driver development especially network device driver is plus with respect to how TCP/IP stack would interact with driver under various OS’s-Very strong understanding of system primitive usage like Semaphore, Spinlock, critical section, event, message queue etc.-Ability to identify issues in the driver synchronization between different threads, also between interaction of application and kernel space-Strong working knowledge of interrupt handling in the device driver and issues surrounding DMA/Cache, etc.-Ability to identify bottle neck in the driver performance and be able to propose solution to overcome CPU utilization and data throughput issues-Strong knowledge of various host bus’s like SDIO, SPI, USB & PCI; detailed knowledge of USB is plus-Need strong knowledge of internal working of Linux-Linux device driver (preferably wireless/wired drivers) experience, kernel API’s, worked with interrupt/DMA handling.Other Job requirements:-5-10% travel-Willing/capable of interacting with customer effectively-Documentation, training both internal & external customers Education Level: College DegreeExperience: 10-12 Years
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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Semiconductor, Developer, Network, Engineer, Embedded, Science, Technology, Engineering
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