About the position
Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us. Super Micro Computer, Inc. is currently seeking a highly experience SW Engineer – Switch Design. The candidate will be responsible for promoting switch products, program manage and work with development and testing teams to features. This position requires working knowledge on networking and switch products, analytical thinking, business acumen, leadership, program management teamwork, attention to details, and creativity.
Responsibilities
- Adopting existing firmware code and work on new or different switch hardware platforms.
- Developing and implementing low-level software that directly interacts with switch hardware platforms.
- Debugging and optimizing ported F/W to ensure proper functionality/performance/stability on the platforms.
- Creating and maintaining documentation for ported F/W and related process.
- Collaborating with hardware engineers and other software teams to ensure seamless integration of ported F/W.
- Performing code reviews and adhering to F/W development best practices.
- Troubleshooting F/W issue cross different switch hardware configuration.
- Monitor progress across the group’s responsibility for the feature area.
- Work across different HW, FW and SW departments/groups to identify and resolve technical issues.
- Perform other tasks as needed within the business.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline is preferred; Master’s degree in management is a plus.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in networking switch products development or management, or other similar technical position.
- Demonstrated experience in managing support questions around Workload Management.
- Strong technical comprehension of networking switch technology.
- Experience in building switch products.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage terms of peers across a functional team.
- Ability to multi-task against disparate project and timelines to provide comprehensive support and completion to all the moving parts of each project.
- Strong technical, people and organizational skills.
- Comfortable with architecting solutions along with Fellows and Architectures from Tier 1 organizations across the Globe.
- Ability to proactively identify upcoming risks, issues and bottlenecks.
Nice-to-haves
- Capabilities to contribute and work with Industry Standards body such as DMTF and influence decisions on behalf of Supermicro.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Participation in bonus and equity award programs.
