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Linux Kernel Networking Engineer (Host/WLAN)

  

THE ROLE:  

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic Software Systems Design Engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD's products, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Software Systems Design Engineering team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.  

  

THE PERSON:  

As a Software Systems Design Engineer, you will deliver our next generation of products in the Wireless industry – WLAN, BT, 5G etc. In this high visibility position, your systems engineering expertise, Wireless standards knowledge, firmware and Windows/Linux side kernel expertise will be necessary to define products, develop solutions, assess root causes, and produce solution resolutions. As a senior member of the team, taking initiative in mentoring to achieve the team's goal of on time delivery is expected.

  

Key Responsibilities

Understand concepts of Wlan VIFs, DMA and firmware-host communication
Design and develop Wired/Wireless LAN /5G features - specifically on the host side- with deep understanding of the complete Wlan host stack
Deep understanding and hands on experience in OS concepts (synchronization, threads, user-kernel separation, scheduler etc.)
Use AI effectively in all aspects of design, development, test, documentation and debugging tasks
Work with AMD's architecture specialists to improve future products 
Apply a data minded approach to target optimization efforts
Stay informed of Wireless software and hardware trends and innovations
Design and develop new groundbreaking AMD technologies
Participating in design and development of new features and support of existing features
Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
Develop technical relationships with peers and partners

Preferred Experience

5 to 12+ years of relevant industry experience in strong object-oriented programming background, C/C++ preferred; Assembly language programming abilities on different CPU cores a definite plus.
Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
Knowledge of different WiFi/BT/5G standards is a definite plus
Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
Experience with Linux and/or any Real Time Operating System development 
Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus
Effective communication and problem-solving skills

Academic Credentials

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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