Senior Software Development Engineer

• Work with AMD’s architecture specialists to improve future products
• Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture
• Demonstrate proven experience of writing and maintaining high performance drivers for the Linux kernel
• Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies
• Submit driver changes to the upstream Linux kernel
• Participating in new ASIC and hardware bring ups
• Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
• Develop technical relationships with peers and partners

• Proven commercial experience developing in C
• 5+ years software experience (or equivalent) ideally working at silicon or networking companies plus repeated evidence of technical leadership in the successful delivery of complex and challenging software products
• Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
• Direct experience with Linux kernel and virtualization development
• Proven experience writing device drivers for the Linux kernel
• Hardware & Peripheral Configuration, User-space applications, Bootloaders, Uboot
• Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus
• Knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, SDN and Filesystems
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills
• Motivating leader with good interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers