Broadcom R&D Software Engineer - Virtual Machine Monitor 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

637115404

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

The Monitor Group’s principal function is to maintain and develop the virtual CPU and memory aspects of the virtual machine platform that runs guest operating systems.

In the first 6 months, you will be expected to get up to speed with one of the specialization areas, such as new CPU feature enablement, confidential computing, modernization of the monitor architecture, hardware accelerators, power-aware compute or aspects of guest timekeeping. By year 1 you would be expected to have impactful engineering contributions and enhancements in your area of specialization.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

This role requires you to possess a deep understanding of processor architecture and low-level OS kernel internals, system software including memory management, resource management, andinterrupt architecture. The principalprogramming language used is C, with assembly code used whenever needed to deal with machine-specific constructs.

You will work independently and as a member of a team of software engineers to design and deliver features in support of new processors or a proposed enhancement for the virtual machine monitor architecture. As an example, you might be involved in the design and implementation of upcoming CPU instruction set updates in avirtualization context. Similarly, youmay be assigned to contribute to an aspect ofmemory virtualization/management featuresas part of a monitor modernization effort. For more senior roles you would be expected to make proposals that help define the design roadmap, or drive a technical effort leading other engineers.

You will be joining as a Virtual Machine Monitor Engineer as part of theMonitor Group. The MonitorGroup is a part of the VMWare Cloud Foundation (VCF) Divisionunder Broadcom. This organizationhandles all aspects of virtual machine engineering and has deep roots in the history ofthe company. The MonitorGroup is highly collaborative in nature, with a well-established culture of engineering discipline. Here you will have the opportunity not only to interact with other team members within the Group, but also other groups working on core aspectsof vSphere. You willlead your part within the projects, as well as frequently be given the opportunity to present your work to others and learn about the novel work of other engineers.

Job Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of related experience or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of related experience.

- Experience in C, and assembly programming

- Experience working on the kernel and /or virtualization space

- Proficient in x86_64 CPU architecture

Must have legal authorization to work in the US.

If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.