Hardware Developer

Introduction
India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996 the Lab is headquartered in India’s Silicon Valley and startup hub – Bengaluru with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire Systems portfolio – z Systems Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design firmware operating system to software defined storage. The lab also focuses on innovations thanks to the creative energies of the teams. The lab has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far.
While computing veers towards cognitive cloud mobile social and security the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile Design Thinking and DevOps.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Candidate shall design and develop algorithms for Post Silicon Validation of next generation IBM power processors participate in processor Bringup Activities and own key debugs of architecture and micro-architecture anomalies during the bring up/power on phase. The candidate will be expected to interface with multiple stakeholders in hardware design teams lab teams performance teams and characterization teams. She/he must possess excellent communication skills and understand agile processes. The candidate must have an eagerness and curiosity to learn and be willing to code and participate hands on.

Responsibilities:
This position requires interaction and fulfilling the requirements of IBM’s Hardware Bring-up/TEST teams Silicon Debug and understanding SPQL (Shipped Product Quality Level) requirements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of industry experience in post Silicon Validation
• Technical Expertise: Very proficient in C programming Scripting skills (Perl Shell/Python Scripting)
• Computer Architecture
• Operating Systems and Concepts
• Proven Programming skills in C/ASM (PPC64 preferred but x86 also ok).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in IO device drivers firmware exposure(NIC controller PCIe device controllers ASIC FW development experience)
• Experience in ARM architecture
• Experience in RISC V architecture
• Experience in Spike simulator experience