Embedded Software

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled Systems Engineer with strong expertise in Ansible automation, Kubernetes, and system-level scripting. This role focuses on building scalable automation and managing GPU-aware infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation workflows using Ansible
• Write and optimize Ansible playbooks for infrastructure and application deployment
• Automate system-level tasks using Bash scripting
• Debug and test automation workflows for reliability and scalability
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, including:
• Pod lifecycle management
• Networking and firewall configurations
• GPU resource mapping and scheduling
• Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure secure and scalable infrastructure for AI workloads

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible and automation workflows
• Solid Linux system administration experience
• Proficiency in Bash scripting
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes (pods, networking, CRDs, GPU scheduling)
• Experience in debugging and optimizing automation systems
• Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset

Nice to Have

• Experience with GPU workloads or HPC environments
• Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana

As a Software Engineer III – Unreal Engine, you’ll be a core technical contributor and leader on a team building high-end AAA PC/Console experiences. You’ll take ownership of critical game systems, mentor other engineers, and help define technical direction. Working alongside art, design, and production, your experience and engineering insight will shape the gameplay, tools, and systems that bring our ambitious projects to life.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, implement, and optimize complex systems in Unreal Engine 5 using C++
• Lead development of gameplay, systems, and core tech features
• Collaborate with designers, artists, and producers to ensure technical feasibility and creative alignment
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold best engineering practices
• Drive performance improvements across PC and console builds
• Participate in planning, tech reviews, and cross-functional coordination

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Unreal Engine-based game development
• Deep expertise in C++ and Unreal Engine internals (e.g., Gameplay Framework, Replication, UObjects, GAS, )
• Experience with multiplayer, AI, Bots, Physics and rendering systems
• Shipped multiple PC/Console titles with significant system ownership
• Excellent debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning skills
• Strong software architecture skills and understanding of real-time game systems
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Unreal Editor tooling, plugins, and build systems
• Knowledge of Agile production pipelines
• Contributions to tool development or tech pipelines
• Understanding of AI-Tools and ability to adapt them in workflows to improve productivity

Job Category: Engineering

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Hyderabad

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/

• Design and implement software of embedded devices and systems from requirements to production and commercial deployment
• Design, develop, code, test and debug system software
• Review code and design
• Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources
• Integrate and validate new product designs
• Support software QA and optimize I/O performance
• Provide post production support
• Interface with hardware design and development
• Assess third party and open source software

• Proven working experience in software engineering
• BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on embedded targets
• Solid programming experience in C or C++
• Proven experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review
• Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces and hardware subsystems
• Adequate knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components
• Strong documentation and writing skills

Build new features, enhance existing functionality and fix issues in the Windows Desktop application.

Help develop and maintain UI component library (Windows, dialogs , complex widgets)

Advise and assist the other developers in the Desktop.

Skills required

1. Very strong programming skills in UI development using Qt/C++
2. A strong ability to think about components and modules as they relate to other components as part of a larger system.
3. QML knowledge is a plus
4. Cross platform application development knowledge is a plus, not mandatory
5. A very strong attention to detail and the willingness to deliver pixel perfect UI according to the designs.
6. Must have: Very strong in ModelView architecture
7. Must have : In-depth C++, STL, and data structures knowledge

Desirable : Familiar with unit test frameworks like QtTest or Gtest

Desirable : Experienced with Agile methodology

Desirable : Knowledge in GIT or any other config management tool

Good understanding of object oriented techniques methodologies.

Good hands-on experience of C++ system programming and design.

Key Skills

C/C++, Qt, STL, Design, QML

Experience In product development is good to have

• Very strong knowledge in Embedded C including
• Data structures
• Function pointers
• Bitwise operations
• Experience with Finite State Machine (FSM) software design
• Required experience in AVR microcontrollers and projects to demonstrate it
• Familiarity with ARM 32 bit microcontrollers (Cortex M or any other)
• Required experience with common communication protocols like SPI, UART, I2C etc.
• Comfortable with reading datasheets and basic hardware schematics
• Comfortable with linux development environment including the use of GCC, gdb, makefile

Soft Skills

• Good communication skills
• Self-driven
• Passion for embedded engineering