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Broadcom is a global semiconductor and infrastructure software company that designs and markets a wide range of networking, storage, and wireless connectivity solutions. Industry: Semiconductors & Infrastructure Software
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The R & D Engineer Software 5 joins the VCF Networking Data Plane team to plan, design, develop, and test software systems for new products and enhancements. This role involves leading the development of next-generation networking applications, specifically focusing on the NSX Data Plane for the ESX hypervisor. Key responsibilities include architecting and implementing features for virtual switches, network overlay technologies like vxlan and geneve, physical NIC drivers, and SmartNIC solutions. The engineer will utilize C, C++, and Python to build high-performance, scalable, multi-threaded distributed systems. Core tasks include performance benchmarking, CPU utilization profiling, and memory optimization. The role requires deep hardware architectural knowledge of multi-core CPUs and cache hierarchies to solve complex virtual networking data plane problems and deliver reliable data plane virtualization technology.
Architect, design, and implement new features for the NSX Data Plane on the ESX hypervisor.
Develop high-performance software for virtual switches, network overlays like VXLAN/Geneve, and SmartNIC solutions.
Write maintainable C/C++ and Python code for reliable data plane virtualization and security features.
Create comprehensive testing strategies, detailed test cases, and test data to ensure high-quality deliverables.
Perform performance benchmarking, CPU utilization analysis, memory profiling, and system optimizations.
Provide technical leadership to resolve complex engineering problems and contribute to the company patent portfolio.
Research innovative technologies and implement proofs of concept to share with the engineering team.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience.
Master's degree and 10+ years of related experience.
PhD and 7+ years of related experience.
Firm grasp of design and development of the virtual networking data plane.
Knowledge and previous experience in developing reliable software using C/C++/Python.
Demonstrable implementation experience of high performance, highly concurrent, scalable multi-threaded solutions.
In-depth hardware architectural knowledge including multi-core/multi-thread CPUs, pipelines, cache hierarchies, TLBs, interconnects, and NUMA.
Experience of performance analysis, benchmarking, and troubleshooting including data gathering, scalability testing, and system profiling is an advantage (preferred).
C
Python
Linux Kernel
SONiC
SAI
VxLAN-EVPN
NFV
SRIOV
SwitchDev
NAT
QoS
Segment Routing
Ethernet Switching
SmartNIC
Data Forwarding
Cumulus Linux
Packet Processing
Java
Spring Boot
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
GCP
Generative AI
LLM
RAG
Agentic AI
MCP
Microservices
Distributed Systems
APIs
Data Pipelines
DevOps
VMware Cloud Foundation
Prompt Engineering
Event-driven Architectures