Broadcom Principal Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka 

162889197

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and development of the data plane and packet forwarding technologies for the Ethernet NIC. You will work cross functionally with marketing, architects, silicon development and the QA teams to design, implement, document and test high quality software, drivers and the firmware components.

Responsibilities:

• As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development of the data plane and packet forwarding technologies for the Ethernet NIC.

• Work closely with the Architecture teams, Silicon Design teams and other Software / Firmware teams to architect, design and implement scalable and high performance applications

• Author and contribute in software design, development, validation, and documentation to deliver high quality, high performance and functionally excellent products.

• Work with the QA team to define high quality test cases, review the tests and support through the release development cycle.

• Work closely with the Customer Support Engineers on any customer field issues and provide timely resolutions.

Requirements:

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Techin Computer Science/ Electronics & Communications or equivalent.

• Overall 10+ years of experience in protocols like QUIC, PSP, core networking protocols like IPv4/IPv6, tunneling protocols like VxLAN, GRE and data plane packet forwarding technologies.

• Hands-on experience of Linux Systems programming, Linux kernel, Linux Network Drivers, Linux Kernel Networking, Virtual Switching and Data centre Networking is desired.

• Good fundamentals on PCI Express bus architecture, DMA, Interrupt processing, RDMA, RoCE protocols will be an added advantage.

• Excellent programming skills in C, C++ and Python. Proficiency in developing optimised code in both x86 and ARM64 compiler toolchains.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills in a combined Software and Hardware environments

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Ability to efficiently collaborate with multiple teams across geographically diverse areas.