Staff Engineer - Bengaluru, India - Western Digital

Description

• Responsible for innovation, design and implementation of firmware/Platform softwares (like drivers, system daemons etc.) for our large and complex software environment.
• Become the subject matter expert, owner of one or more components and provide technical leadership.
• Create design documents pertinent to the various phases of firmware/Platform software development.
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver on time with high quality code for cutting-edge storage products.
• Self-motivated to work both unsupervised and as part of an agile team. Collaborate to develop self and others within group.
• Participate in planning and coordinating significant technical investigations from problem statement to conclusions.
• Understand end to end product lifecycle.

• Bachelors +6 yrs experience or Master +4 yrs experience in CS, CE, EE, EC or equivalent required.
• Strong knowledge in C/C++ , GoLang .
• Experience with arm & x86 hardware architectures
• Experience in Linux Kernel programming and filesystems like exFAT, EXT4 etc.
• Strong computer science fundamentals such as operating systems, multi-threading and inter process communication (IPC).
• Strong aptitude and penchant for problem solving, algorithm design, system design, and complexity analysis skills.
• You are comfortable and enjoy working with dynamic and ever evolving environments.
• Technical mindset with great attention to detail and an ever positive, can-do attitude.
• Demonstrate use of out-of-box thinking for creative solutions to highly sticky problems.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication.
• You'll be a fun and enthusiastic teammate who enjoys a challenge and celebrates success.

Preferred :

• Experience with Wifi and Bluetooth drivers

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