ZFW_IO Developer

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for System Z I/O Firmware Simulation team. This team works on providing end to end firmware/hardware simulation solution.
I/O Simulation platform provides a scalable, reusable, light weight environment in Linux
for firmware developers to bring-up Z firmware code in an efficient manner. Simulation platform is crucial for successful bringup of firmware, as it can take several years until the new system becomes available after re-architecture and changes in system hardware.
This team helps business in reduction of development cost and provides faster time-to-market benefit.

Responsibilities:

• Understand System Z architecture and hardware/firmware features
• Create high level models to simulate hardware
• Design and Development of features to aid System Z I/O Firmware bringup and verification.
• Collaborate with world-wide firmware/hardware architects and teams to implement needed features.
• Resolve technical issues through debugging, research, investigation and collaboration
• across teams.
• Create unit/functional tests to verify the implemented features.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4-7 years of relevant Industry experience
• Strong experience with C/C++ programming and data structures.
• Strong Linux System programming skills
• Some experience in Shell/Python scripting language.
• Good understanding of Computer architecture, Operating systems.
• Development and debugging experience in Linux
• Good analytical, problem solving skills
• Experience in device driver development
• Knowledge and experience in PCI and I/O devices

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge/Experience in virtualization technologies
• Experience in multiple processor architectures (arm, x86, s390)
• Experience in Docker containers
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in Google test framework
• Build tools – CMake, Makefile, exposure to standard compiler infrastructure like LLVM/GNU
• Git working knowledge
• Familiarity with Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), like gRPC.
• Basic understanding of compilation steps including assembly instructions, linker scripts and libraries.