Embedded Software Engineer

About us:

Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter storage and computing environments. Arista's award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

About the job

Arista Networks is looking for world-class software engineers to join our Extensible Operating System (EOS) software development team.As a core member of the EOS team, you will be part of a fast-paced,high caliber team-building features to run the world's largest data center networks.Your software will be a key component of Arista's EOS, Arista's unique, Linux-based network operating system that runs on all of Arista's data center networking products.

The EOS team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of software meant to run on the various Arista switches.You will work with your fellow engineers and members of the marketing team to gather and understand the functional and technical requirements for upcoming projects.You will help write functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and the code to bring all of these to life.You will also work with customers to triage and fix problems in their networks. Internally, you will develop automated tests for your software, monitor the execution of those tests, and triage and fix problems found by your tests.At Arista, you will own your projects from definition to deployment, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver.

This role demands strong and broad software engineering fundamentals, and a good understanding of networking including capabilities like L2, L3, and fundamentals of commercial switching HW.Your role will not be limited to a single aspect of EOS at Arista, but cover all aspects of EOS.

Responsibilities:

• Write functional specifications and design specifications for features related to forwarding traffic on the internet and cloud data centers.
• Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our EOS software, using the C, C++, and python programming languages.
• Write test plan specifications for small-sized features in EOS, and implement automated test programs to execute the cases described in the test plan.
• Debug problems found by our automated test programs and fix the problems.
• Work on a team implementing, testing, and debugging solutions to larger routing protocol problems.
• Work with Customer Support Engineers to analyze problems in customer networks and provide fixes for those problems when needed in the form of new software releases or software patches.
• Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems.
• Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista’s software development environment.
• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
• Help to create a schedule for the implementation and debugging tasks, update that schedule weekly, and report it to the project lead.

Qualifications:

• BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering 3-10 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 5 years experience, Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of C, C++, and/or python.
• Knowledge of UNIX or Linux.
• Understanding of L2/L3 networking including at least one of the following areas is desirable:

1. IP routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, or PIM.
2. Layer 2 features such as 802.1d bridging, the 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol, the 802.1ax Link Aggregation Control Protocol, the 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol, or RFC 1812 IP routing.

• Ability to utilize, test, and debug packet forwarding engine and a hardware component’s vendor provided software libraries in your solutions.
• Infrastructure functions related to distributed systems such as messaging, signalling, databases, and command line interface techniques.
• Hands on experience in the design and development of ethernet bridging or routing related software or distributed systems software is desirable.
• Hands on experience with enterprise or service provider class Ethernet switch/router system software development, or significant PhD level research in the area of network routing and packet forwarding.
• Applied understanding of software engineering principles.
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to design a solution to a small-sized problem, and implement that solution without outside help.Able to work on a small team solving a medium-sized problem with limited oversight.

Resources:

• Arista's Approach to Software with Ken Duda (CTO): https://youtu.be/TU8yNh5JCyw
• Additional information and resources can be found at https://www.arista.com/en/

• Firmware Design and Development experience on different micro-controllers.
  
• C/C++ programming
  
• Linux Commands Operating System Concepts
  
• board bring up, embedded software, Kernel Build, Yocto
  
• Shell scripting Networking Concepts Openwrt OS Concepts
  
• Must have good Communication and Presentable skills.
  
• Experience on any Wifi, Bluetooth, GSM modules is a plus.
  
• Design, develop, code, test and debug system software.

Position Overview:

This position is part of highly skilled fimrware team that do software board bring up of bare silicon for next generation products. In order to write system software for embedded electronic products, this position requires academic background in electronics engineering to understand hardware concepts such as digital logic, schematics, and microprocessor communications to develop effective embedded software.

Candidate should have complete knowledge of Software development cycle from architecture definition to the implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Must wear multiple hats from analyzing field and factory reported issues to software integration.
• Be a liason for troubleshooting and debugging complex systems and identifying the root cause.
• Develop detailed design documents and customer facing application notes for the system and IOT features for Mobile routers.
• Act as a product lead and be part of bigger team in software bring up.   
• Ability to work on Low level software such as bootloaders and understanding of low level functional blocks is a must.
• Work on Linux kernel and configuration.
• Write or port device drivers for Ethernet, USB, GPIO, LED, Bluetooth, Accelormeter, LCD and touch screen.
• Debug stability issues in data routing between WAN and LAN interfaces.
• Work with Software QA with test plan and execution.
• Work with Hardware team to identify and root cause stability problems.

Experience/Requirements:  

• Demonstrable knowledge of C, C++, Assembly programming skills
• Overall 10+ years of experience in embedded environment preferabily Linux.
• Board bring up proficiency with bootloaders and other low level software, must be very good with debugging techniques.
• Experience in TCP/IP networking is must for trouble shooting throughput and other traffic issues.
• Driver experience with I2C, SPI, UART, LCD, Ethernet, PCIe is a plus.
• Experience with low level debugging using JTAG.
• Experience with Makefiles, and build environments such as PTXDIST, Yocto and Buildroot.    
• Experience with version control such as git and svn.
• Good communication skills and team player.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously to meet deadlines, in a fast-changing environment.

Education:

Job Description: Senior Software Developer (Exp.2-6 years)

Location: Bangalore

What you need:

* Bachelor’s/Master’s degree is preferred in computer science or related field (such as computer       engineering, software engineering, biomedical engineering, or mathematical sciences) from premier institutes.

* 1-3 years of industry experience in professional software development.  

* Strong C++ knowledge.

* Knowledge of ITK / VTK / OpenCV / Robots / Qt Framework is plus.

* Required Technical Competencies in Algorithms and data structures object oriented design and analysis.

* Expertise in Design Patterns & C++ programming concepts; Linear Algebra, Computer Vision, Software design, development and verification methodologies would be preferred.

* Should be open to work in fast growing medical devices start-up making cutting edge computer assisted & robotic assisted surgery products in India for the world.

* Should have willingness to develop something great from India.

What you will do:

* Work with program manager to understand business requirement and translate that into technical design.

* Create and own leading edge reusable algorithm solutions.

* Create and own cross-platform SDKs.

* Research cutting-edge algorithms and techniques.

* Lead technical design and implementation of a feature.

* Implement high quality code with comprehensive unit testing.

* Troubleshoot issues raised from production and resolve customer problems.

* Evaluate and adopt technologies which improve the team efficiency and platform capability.

* Code review peer developers code and provide constructive feedbacks to ensure consistency and quality of code.

* Be a part of core R&D team for developing Surgical Robots.

* Ensures the integrity and security of company intellectual property and confidential data.

Company Profile

Happy Reliable Surgeries Pvt Ltd (HRS Navigation) started in 2015. It is India's first and only company to develop high tech surgical navigation system for highly complex Brain & Spine surgeries. Our products directly compete with world’s biggest medical devices companies. We are proudly one of the few global companies who have capabilities to develop Computer assisted and Robotic Assisted surgeries products. R&D Centre is based at Bangalore. It has been started by Ex of a global medical device company. It has been incubated & mentored by IIM Calcutta.

Why Do We Exist: - Currently all hi-tech medical devices are imported. Which leads to very high cost of healthcare & non reachability to common people. Our Purpose is to make premium healthcare affordable & accessible by continuous innovation for our people. We want to make India Proud.

Our Achievements: -

• 10 Best start-up in Medical Devices (Insight Success Magazine)
• Won Top 50 emerging product start-up NASSCOM 2017 (National Award)
• Winners in Economic Power of Ideas award 2018 (IIM Ahmadabad) (National Award)
• Winners in Smart Fifty competition conducted by IIM Calcutta (National Award)
• Won Elevate 100, Karnataka top 100 company (State Award from Karnataka Government)
• Grown Exponential even in 2020 financial Year. (No Salary Cuts / Firings)
• 3000+ successful Surgeries performed by our products.

We are looking for passionate, talented and super-smart engineers to join our product development team. If you are someone who innovates, loves solving hard problems, and enjoys end-to-end product development, then this job is for you! You will be working with some of the best developers in the industry in a self-organising, agile environment where talent is valued over job title or years of experience.

Responsibilities:

• You will be involved in end-to-end development of VIMANA technology, adhering to our development practices and expected quality standards.
• You will be building machine/controller specific applications that run on machine tools and stream the machine stats.
• You will be part of a highly collaborative Agile team which passionately follows SAFe Agile practices, including pair-programming, PR reviews, TDD, and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD).
• You will be part of a DevOps culture where you will get to work with production systems, including operations, deployment, and maintenance.
• You will have an opportunity to continuously grow and build your capabilities, learning new technologies, languages, and platforms.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of product development experience.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Multi-Thread application development, STL, Boost and TCP/IP programming.
• Optionally should have some basic knowledge on C#, Python and Wireshark.
• Deep knowledge in Data Structures and Algorithms, using various debuggers (Local/Remote).

Additional Skills:

• Experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum, Kanban), TDD and Continuous Integration (CI/CD).
• Experience using no-SQL databases like MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
• Prior experience with container orchestrators like Kubernetes is a plus.

• We recognize that our dedicated team members make us successful and we offer competitive salaries.
• We are a workplace that values work-life balance, provides flexible working hours, and full time remote work options.
• You will be part of a team that is highly motivated to learn and work on cutting edge technologies, tools, and development practices.
• Bon Appetit! Enjoy catered breakfasts, lunches and free snacks!