Validation Lead

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 server processors SOCs and ASICs. He will be the key interface on processor Bringup Activities and own key debugs of architecture and micro-architecture issues 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. Candidate must drive coverage closure by developing comprehensive test plans and strategies and drive to achieve coverage goals while interacting with stakeholders verif teams and design teams. Candidate must be skilled in utilizing object-oriented programming skills in C/C++ and scripting languages like Python/Perl to write complex test scenarios to automate/optimize. Candidate must possess experience in verifying multi-processor cache coherency and memory subsystems ensuring seamless operation in complex systems. Proficiency in emulator env/FPGA validation is pregerred. 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.

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

• Over 10 years experience in hands on Software development using C C++.
  Computer Architecture Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of computer architecture including processor core design specifications instruction set architecture and logic verification.
• Multi-Processor Cache Coherency: Experience in verifying multi-processor cache coherency and memory subsystems ensuring seamless operation in complex systems
• Operating Systems and Concepts: Atleast 5 years experience with Multithreading context switching memory management related development
• Technical Expertise: Very proficient in C programming Strong Scripting skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• IO device drivers firmware exposure(NIC controller PCIe device controllers ASIC FW development experience)ARM architecture/ Risc V KnowledgeSpike simulator experience QEMU simulator
• Over 15 years experience in a Software development role tools development firmware development or validation tools development