IBM Firmware Developer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

240068209

Responsibilities:
As individual developer

• Design/Develop firmware which supports initial load program of z Systems and IO subsystem enablement for IO intensive workload running on zSystems.
• Design/Develop Initial load programme consists of IO configuration, Processor configuration and Memory configuration to suit the system to run various Operating systems.
• Design/Develop Storage and networking emulators/Test vehicles to verify and validate IO support protocols like Fibre channel protocol, FICON protocol.
• Design/Develop IBM proprietary protocols like zHyperlink – used to communicate to IBM Storage servers, Test Vehicle to emulate the Storage side of it.
• Design/Develop/Debug IO simulation environment used to design/develop IO firmware early in the program, which is Linux OS interacting with early hardware models, QEMU simulation models and Firmware code.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
7-10 years of experience in
Must Have:

• Expertise in Firmware development, IO domain knowledge, Linux Systems programming knowledge, Use and debug code written in C on Linux environment. Basic knowledge in Object Oriented programming c++ language.
• Basic understanding about IO protocols like PCIe, I2C, SPI etc
• Good communication skills and be able to work effectively in a global team environment.
• Basic knowledge in Linux development environment GitHUB, CI/CD, Agile methodology
• Keywords: C programming AND System Software AND Linux Internals

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Z Systems experience, Prior experience / exposure to PCIe protocol, Assembly programming