System Software Engineer - Openbmc

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

System Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing OpenBMC Core Infrastructure and Features for GPU Server platforms. Responsibilities include BMC firmware bring-up, performance analysis, developing manageability features, contributing to the OpenSource community, and ensuring code quality and security. Requires expertise in BMC firmware development, board bring-up, system management standards, and strong programming skills in C/C++, Bash, Python, Go.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement OpenBMC Core Infrastructure and Features for GPU Server platforms.
  2. Hands-on work with bringing up BMC firmware, performance analysis, and coding various manageability features for NVIDIA’s Server platforms.
  3. Design, Develop and contribute to reviews closely working with Opensource community. Influence community to enable NVIDIA features and platform requirements.
  4. Designing solutions for errors, stats & configuration appropriate to CPU, GPU, DIMM, SSDs, NICs, IB, PSU, BMC, FPGA, CPLD, etc. for enterprise readiness of NVIDIA Server platforms.
  5. Designing and developing performance-optimized active monitoring BMC solutions using DMTF Standards including MCTP, Redfish, SPDM, and PLDM specifications.

Skills

Required

  • BMC Firmware development
  • X86 or ARM Platforms
  • BMC-BIOS communication
  • thermal management
  • power management
  • firmware update
  • device monitoring
  • firmware security
  • Board Bring-up
  • Device drivers (I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, Mail-box)
  • U-Boot
  • Linux kernel
  • System Management (IPMI, KCS, DMTF Standards - PLDM, MCTP, Redfish, PMBus, NVMe)
  • REST architecture
  • JSON over HTTPS
  • OAuth
  • C/C++
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Go
  • Linux user-space programs
  • system programs
  • code reviewing
  • Linux fundamentals
  • Linux distributions
  • Linux packages
  • Linux upgrade mechanisms
  • building and deploying Linux images

Nice to have

  • Contributor to industry standards (Open Compute, OpenBMC, IPMI, DMTF Standards)
  • open source contributor
  • system software expertise
  • platform security
  • x86/ARM-based Rack/Blade server systems

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Domain expertise in BMC Firmware development on X86 or ARM Platforms including BMC-BIOS communication, thermal management, power management, firmware update, device monitoring, firmware security, etc.
  • Board Bring-up expertise with hands-on experience in Device drivers like I2C/I3C, SPI, PCIe, SMBus, Mail-box, etc. as well as the device trees for U-Boot and Linux kernel.
  • OOB or In-band System Management experience with exposure to standards IPMI, KCS, DMTF Standards (PLDM, MCTP, Redfish, PMBus, NVMe, etc.)
  • Strong programming and scripting skills using C/C++, Bash, Python, Go, etc. both for Linux user-space programs and system programs with thorough code reviewing skills.
  • Strong in Linux fundamentals, various Linux distributions and packages, Linux upgrade mechanisms, building and deploying Linux images.