Software Engineer - Ethernet Switching

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA’s Networking Software Group is rapidly growing, and we are hiring software engineers for the Ethernet Switch SDK Software Development team. Come and join a diverse group of engineers spread across the globe who come together in small close knit teams to develop innovative and groundbreaking solutions. The SDK enables our customers to build state of the art datacenter switch/router software solutions over NVIDIA's Spectrum family of ASICS. These solutions enable todays rapidly evolving data centers built specifically for AI workloads. Are you ready for this challenge? What you’ll be doing: Research, prototype, develop and optimize APIs, tools and libraries for ACLs, Switching, Routing, QOS, Telemetry, Analytics, and so on. Analyze, influence and improve the performance of software libraries, APIs, and tools according to good engineering practices. Collaborate with team members, architects, QA and support teams to resolve defects Assist our customers integrate the SDK software into their applications For senior levels, leading, and driving multi-functional teams on large feature developments across different layers. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most hard-working and talented people in the world working for us. If you're creative and passionate about developing cloud services we want to hear from you!

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
8+ years of software development experience in data forwarding on Ethernet switching silicon and/or offload on SmartNICs.
Excellent C Programming skills, with a keen eye for performance and writing optimized code.
Strong analytical skills, deep knowledge of algorithms and proficient with data structures
Operating System concepts like memory management, user-space vs kernel space, mutual exclusion, multi-threading and experience with Linux distributions
Excellent communication and documentation skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with Merchant Silicon for Switching/Routing.
Contributions to SONiC, SwitchDev or Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) or Linux kernel networking drivers or other networking projects.
Experience accelerating packet processing on Ethernet switching platforms.
Experience in virtualized networking and SRIOV, container networking concepts, networking functionality like NAT, Firewall and Load Balancer etc.
Knowledge of Linux kernel networking as well as experience with control plane operation in areas like EVPN, Segment Routing etc.
Participation in the open-source community and python programming skills

Responsibilities

Research, prototype, develop and optimize APIs, tools and libraries for ACLs, Switching, Routing, QOS, Telemetry, Analytics, and so on.
Analyze, influence and improve the performance of software libraries, APIs, and tools according to good engineering practices.
Collaborate with team members, architects, QA and support teams to resolve defects
Assist our customers integrate the SDK software into their applications
For senior levels, leading, and driving multi-functional teams on large feature developments across different layers.