Lead Software Engineer - KMD

Job Description

 General Summary:

The Graphics team is looking for talented software engineers interested in developing software for compute/mobile devices and responsible for delivering drivers and tools for Snapdragon chipsets, providing best in class performance, power, and features. This role will involve working in kernel layers of the Graphics software stack on Windows.

Title: Engineer, Staff/Manager

Job Overview

• Embedded software development of 3D graphics drivers for compute devices as well driving pre/post-silicon efforts with GPU HW, shader compiler and OS teams.
• New GFX HW and OS features / requirements understanding, driving features design to driver development & validation for graphics.
• Detailed GPU power and performance bottlenecks analysis and driving optimizations across Graphics SW/HW and windows system teams.
• Position involves kernel mode drivers design and development on multiprocessor & multithreaded platforms, interactions/collaboration with software, hardware and systems teams to develop/support optimized DirectX drivers for compute devices on Windows.

Required Skills:

• Good C/C++ programming skills, Embedded SW systems, RTOS (Real Time Operation Systems) concepts, strong Analytical/problem solving & debug skills as well experience in low level driver development, register programming, general algorithm, and data structures.
• Android/ Windows graphics framework knowledge, good embedded system & HLOS concepts and understanding of Windows/Unix Kernel architecture, concepts like memory management, shared memory concepts, semaphores, mutex, system call, deadlock, spinlock, IOCTLs etc
• 8+ years of Embedded Software / Systems Engineering, or related work experience with at least 4+ years preferred to have prior development experience in Graphics/Multimedia kernel mode driver.