Description

• 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. 
  
   

Qualifications

 

• 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

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute