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SW Development Engineer - XEN and Realtime

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Hybrid (Bangalore, India)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focused on leading power IP and features across pre-silicon architecture to post-silicon delivery for AMD products, with emphasis on Xen virtualization, Real-Time Linux, and embedded driver development.

Responsibilities

  • 8+ years of experience in Embedded Linux system software / kernel and driver development
  • Strong programming skills in C and Linux kernel debugging
  • Hands-on experience with Xen virtualization: Dom0 kernel, drivers, and I/O virtualization; DomU integration and guest driver considerations
  • Strong understanding of Real-Time Linux fundamentals: determinism vs throughput trade-offs; latency and jitter analysis and mitigation
  • Experience with PREEMPT_RT kernels and real-time tuning: IRQ threading, priority inheritance, RT mutex behavior; CPU isolation, affinity, cpusets/cgroups, NOHZ/full tickless
  • Driver-level expertise in one or more areas: Ethernet (MAC/PHY, DMA, interrupts, NAPI); PCIe / IOMMU / MSI-X; Storage (NVMe/SATA) or high-speed I/O; Industrial I/O (SPI/I2C/UART/GPIO) under timing constraints
  • Experience with performance and latency analysis tools: ftrace, perf, trace-cmd, cyclictest
  • Experience with Yocto BSPs: Kernel configuration, recipe integration, reproducible builds

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Skills

Required:Embedded Linux system softwareC programmingLinux kernel debuggingXen virtualizationReal-Time Linux/ PREEMPT_RTIRQ threading, RT mutex, CPU isolationEthernet / PCIe / Storage / I/OPerformance analysis toolsYocto BSPs

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance
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