Engineering - Software Development Engineer

Luxoft; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft in Bengaluru, India is seeking a talented verification engineer focusing on Linux platform driver development for CPU features. You will analyze, test, and improve driver stacks across Linux internals, memory management, PCIe, and DMA pathways.

You will collaborate with design, firmware, hardware, validation, and customer teams, write test plans, develop directed and random tests, mentor juniors, and use scripting and AI tools to boost productivity and coverage.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux platform driver development and integration.
• Deep involvement with Linux internals, including memory management, scheduler, interrupt handling.
• Experience collaborating with hardware, firmware, validation, and customer teams.
• Proven ability to analyze and debug low-level driver, hardware and OS issues.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design engineers and verification engineers to verify new CPU features.
• Build test plan documentation covering interactions with features and sub-units.
• Estimate time to write new tests and adjust environments/tools.
• Develop directed and random verification tests.
• Improve test benches and debugging to resolve failures with RTL/design teams.
• Use scripting and AI tools to improve productivity and coverage.
• Develop functional coverage properties and review coverage metrics.
• Mentor junior engineers as needed.

Skills

Linux driver

CPU verification

Test development

Scripting

Job description

Project description

We are looking for a talented, detail-oriented, and motivated person. Your contributions will impact products that span the global x86 market from server to desktop and laptop designs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design engineers and other verification engineers to understand new CPU features to be verified.
• Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, various design sub-units within the CPU, SOC and also hardware, firmware, and software use cases if applicable.
• Estimate time required to write new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment and tools.
• Develop directed and random verification tests.
• Understand the existing test bench setup and look for opportunities to improve it.
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL design engineers to resolve design defects and correct any stimulus or testbench issues.
• Use scripting and internal AI tools to come up with innovative solutions to day-to-day problems and to improve individual as well as team\'s productivity.
• Develop functional coverage properties as needed.
• Review functional and code coverage metrics – modify or add tests or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers as needed.

SKILLS

Must have

• Experience range 5-8y
• Collaborate with internal central engineering teams and develop new features, Integration,Bug fixes and productization of the Linux platform driver stack.
• Deep involvement with Linux internals, including:o GFX/Multimedia/Audio/Network/DMA/MIPI driver development/Porting/Bug fixing.o Memory management, Scheduler, Interrupts, NAPI, and polling mechanismso PCIe, DMA, and device drivers
• Collaborate with firmware, hardware, validation, and customer teams
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to resolve Linux OS, Kernel, Driver issues.
• Analyze and debug critical low-level driver, hardware, and OS issues
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset.
• Familiarity with the use of AI is a plus.