What are the responsibilities and job description for the Board Support Package Software Engineer position at idexcel?
Job Description
JOB Description
Development and porting of Board Support Packages (Boot loader & Linux kernel) for PowerPC, ARM architecture which includes developing and modifying device drivers, configuration files, I/O initialization and startup routines, memory management, OS configuration, extensions to
kernels, boot loaders, etc
Perform board bring-ups and hardware validation/ debugging.
Development of custom utilities which can useful for benchmarking of target hardware or help application and verification team.
Performing hardware/software unit level tests and/or functional integration tests.
Development of multithreaded user space applications
Tools: JTAG based hardware emulators, Hardware debugging tools e.g. Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzers, Kernel debugging tools e.g. ftrace, GIT, Subversion, GIT based code maintaining tools e.g. gerrit, gitlab
Qualifications
Must possess detail knowledge of Linux Device Drivers, subsystems and Linux Environment
Hands on experience of board bring up
Programming language: C/C
Operating System : Linux
o Good understanding of device drivers, file systems, memory management and OS internals
Scripting language: Python, Shell
Additional Information
Anvesh Reddy
609 269 2719