Packet Processor

Critical Job Duties & Technical Competences:

• Hands on experience dealing with various PowerPC/PowerQUIC/ARM/X86 processors and packet processing processors like Cavium OCTEON, Broadcom XLR/XLP, EZChip, and associated UBoot/Boot loader/Firmware, Linux BSP and SDK 

• Knowledge of ATCA, IPMI highly desirable.

• Working knowledge on EZ chip Network processor [NP2, NP3, NP4, NP5 etc.,].

• Working experience on L2, L3 protocols on datapath [especially data forwarding] including concepts like VLAN, L2F, Ethernet, VPN, RSTP, MSTP, IGMP, IPv4/v6, ICMP, OSPF, MPLS etc., and OpenFlow/SDN.

• Knowledge of ACL, Load balancing is an advantage.

• Experience in dealing with Broadcom Ethernet switches and associated management software (e.g. Level 7 FASTPATH software) would be an advantage

• Excellent programming skills using C and assembly languages, modeling and higher level design tools desirable 

• Working knowledge of Linux operating systems

• Exposure to TEM Tier 1 customer support: participation to customer meeting and on-site and/or remote debugging on the live networks

• Exposure to mentoring, and overlooking software development from the third party outsourcing teams

• Working experience with distributed and international development team: US, China, India, Asia, is a definitely plus

Qualifications:

• BE or MTech in Computer Science/ Electronics/Telecom

• 2 plus years of experience in software development in the technical areas stated above

Excellent programming and code reviewing/testing and debugging skills 

• Excellent written and verbal communications especially in design specifications and product requirements 

• Ability and skill to effectively and productively engage with customers and technology partners 

• Ability and skill to effectively technically lead/mentor less experienced software engineers 

• Excellent interpersonal interactions skills in a team work environment 

This is for a renowed client of LinkTag. For more information, please write to us hrteam (at)