Software Development Engineer (Networking)

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices

Cambridge, United Kingdom

THE ROLE:

AMD is looking for a senior software engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor you will be part of a leading team to drive and enhance AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market.  

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate possesses an innovative and problem-solving mindset, has a keen eye for Software engineering development, and is diligent and passionate about Technology. A successful candidate will need to employ strong knowledge in computer technologies, leadership skills in technical areas, and SW engineering expertise as well as a strong ability to compete effectively in a fast-paced, relevant environment while working with different teams of engineers and collaborators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This is an exciting role in the Network Solutions group, based in the Cambridge UK office. You will be part of a key engineering team developing software for next-generation networking for cloud and hyperscale data centre operators combining software defined networking, network and storage offload and hardware datapath customization.

The role will involve working closely with different teams both within the Cambridge office and more widely with AMD sites worldwide: working closely with the silicon team to refine the design and model the RTL, working with host driver teams to develop high performance network stacks and working with the system test to take products to release.

You will have experience working at the hardware/software interface involving networking in some capacity, programming in C.

To be successful you will have the ability to quickly understand a complex hardware and software architecture. You will be able to tackle system level problems and demonstrate knowledge of relevant embedded debug techniques and tools.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

2+ years software experience (or equivalent), ideally working at silicon or networking companies
Proven commercial experience developing in C
Excellent knowledge of low-level algorithms and data structures
Embedded systems, ideally with experience of system software and device drivers
Understanding of server system architectures, e.g. PCI-Express
Hardware/software co-design
Experience of linux, python and other scripting languages
Ethernet & TCP/IP
Strong communication skills