Board Support Package Engineer

eInfochips; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

eInfochips is looking for a dedicated engineering professional to work on the development and porting of Board Support Packages, focusing on PowerPC and ARM architectures. Responsibilities include modifying device drivers and performing hardware bring-ups and validation.

The ideal candidate has expertise in Linux Device Drivers, programming in C/C++, and experience with hardware debugging tools. This position offers opportunities for impactful technical work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Detail knowledge of Linux Device Drivers, subsystems, and Linux Environment.
• Understanding of device drivers, file systems, memory management, and OS internals.
• Experience with debugging and testing hardware/software at a unit level.

Responsibilities

• Development and porting of Board Support Packages for various architectures.
• Perform board bring-ups and hardware validation/debugging.
• Development of custom utilities for benchmarking hardware.

Skills

Linux Device Drivers

Board Bring-up

C/C++ programming

Linux OS internals

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Hardware debugging tools

Version control systems (GIT, Subversion)

Tools

JTAG hardware emulators

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

Protocol Analyzers

ftrace

Job description

Job Description

• Development and porting of Board Support Packages (Boot loader & Linux kernel) for PowerPC, ARM architecture, including developing and modifying device drivers, configuration files, I/O initialization, startup routines, memory management, OS configuration, extensions to kernels, boot loaders, etc.
• Perform board bring-ups and hardware validation/debugging.
• Development of custom utilities useful for benchmarking target hardware or helping application and verification team.
• Perform hardware/software unit level tests and/or functional integration tests.
• Development of multi-threaded user space applications.

Technical Skills

• Detail knowledge of Linux Device Drivers, subsystems, and Linux Environment.
• Board Bring-up.
• Programming language: C/C++.
• Operating System: Linux – good understanding of device drivers, file systems, memory management, and OS internals.
• Scripting language: Python, Shell.
• Tools: JTAG based hardware emulators; hardware debugging tools such as Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzers; kernel debugging tools such as ftrace; version control systems including GIT, Subversion, and tools like Gerrit, GitLab.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.