Careers

Principal Physical Design Engineer

Boxborough

Description

Netronome Systems is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our silicon design team. In this position you will play a key role in the development of high-performance Network Processor SoCs, with duties in the back-end implementation process.

Responsibilities

This position will have physical implementation responsibilities including floorplanning, partitioning, P&R, full-chip timing, chip assembly and cleanup. Additionally, you will contribute to synthesis/APR methodology and block implementation. This position will be working closely with Architects and RTL Designers to ensure that requirements are well-understood, coordinated, and subsequently executed to deliver high quality silicon.

Requirements

Specific qualifications for this position include:

• Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or Computer Science.
• At least 10 years of experience.
• Experience floorplanning, APR and signoff for large multi-million gate count projects.
• Experience implementing powergrid and clock tree at the chip level. Additionally verifying the correctness of these for EM/IR Drop.
• Experience in the chip assembly, DRC/LVS cleanup and GDSII generation for tapeout.
• Experience in partitioning and timing budgeting.
• Experience in block synthesis and APR.
• Solid understanding of hardware design fundamentals, computer and networking architecture and VLSI principles.
• Independent automation/parsing scripting experience in such languages as python/perl/tcl is required. Programming experience in C++/java/other is a plus.
• Exposure to Verilog/VHDL coding and verification, CMOS circuits and digital design.
• Must possess good interpersonal skills, be a quick learner and team player, and be ready to contribute wherever the need is.
• Be able to quickly comprehend new challenges and plan the necessary tasks to meet overall objectives in a timely manner.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and being able to deliver high quality output against deadlines are a must.

Principal DFT Design & Verification Engineer

Boxborough

Description

Netronome is seeking highly motivated experienced DFT Design and Verification Engineer to play a pivotal role in the implementation of a complex high-performance Network Processor SoC as part of our Boxborough Silicon Engineering Team.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will focus in DFT implementation and design. Solid understanding of hardware design fundamentals and VLSI principles is required, as well as expertise in Verilog/VHDL coding, CMOS circuits and digital design.

Successful candidates will work closely with the system architects and other design and verification engineers to ensure that requirements are well understood, coordinated, and subsequently executed to deliver high quality silicon.

Requirements

The ideal candidate would have the right combination of technical and interpersonal skills including:

• BS or MS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 15+ years of silicon hardware design experience.
• Substantial Experience in architecture and hardware design.
• A history of successfully delivering good hardware design.
• A strong ability to devise, document, and implement processes and methods in a well-organized, robust, and well-communicated manner.
• Good understanding of DFT (Design for Test).
  • Scan Insertion
  • ATPG and Test Pattern Compression
  • Memory BIST
  • Logic BIST
  • IEEE 1149.1 and 1149.6 JTAG & Boundary Scan
• Experience with Cadence Encounter Test.
• Experience with debug of DFT Rule Checking and Test Coverage Issues.
• Experience with Test Pattern Generation and verification.
• Experience with implementation and verification of JTAG, MBIST, LBIST, etc.
• Experience with scripting (Perl, TCL, or Python) and Makefiles is required.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Be self-motivated and able to work independently
• Possess good written and verbal communication skills, being able to deliver high quality output against aggressive schedule

Principal Logic Design Engineer

Boxborough

Description

Netronome is seeking highly motivated experienced Logic Design Engineers to join our Silicon Engineering Team to play a pivotal role in the implementation of a complex high-performance Network Processor SoC and supporting FPGAs.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities will span the entire ASIC design process, including definition and architecture of new major functional blocks, development of new RTL design, and maintenance of existing RTL designs and integration of externally developed IP blocks. In addition, you will contribute to the logic verification, synthesis/APR and timing closure of RTL designs. Solid understanding of hardware design fundamentals, computer and networking architecture and VLSI principles is required, as well as expertise in Verilog/VHDL coding, CMOS circuits and digital design.

Successful logic design candidates will work closely with the system architects and other RTL design and verification engineers to ensure that requirements are well understood, coordinated, and subsequently executed to deliver high quality silicon. In addition, a principle logic design candidate will lead, direct, and mentor a small group of engineers to accomplish these goals.

Requirements

The ideal candidate would have the right combination of technical and interpersonal skills including:

• BS or MS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 15+ years of silicon hardware design experience.
• Substantial Experience in architecture and hardware design.
• A history of successfully delivering good hardware design.
• Expert-level understanding of silicon logic design and Verilog/VHDL.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience with scripting (Perl, TCL, Python) and Makefiles is preferred
• Good interpersonal skills, be a quick learner, and ready to contribute to a supportive team culture, wherever the need arises
• Be able to quickly comprehend new challenges and plan the necessary tasks to meet overall objectives in a timely manner
• Be self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Be able to lead and motivate others to accomplish a common goal.
• Possess good written and verbal communication skills, being able to deliver high quality output against aggressive schedule

Accounting Clerk

Pittsburgh

Description:

Responsibilities:

• A/P Invoice matching to supporting documentation
• A/P Invoice vouchering
• Check run and related activities
• Expense report processing
• Journal Entries and Accruals
• Account Reconciliations
• Spending Analysis by Vendor
• Policies and Procedures Documentation
• Filing/Scanning
• Provide assistance as needed in year-end audit process
• Other Administrative functions
• Other increased responsibilities possible in future

Requirements:

• BS in Accounting/Finance or equivalent experience
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with Excel
• Must be very organized, meet deadlines, and have ability to take on new tasks

Lab Manager & System Administrator

Pittsburgh

Description

Responsibilities:

• Manage hardware and software for development and QA labs.
  • Install server hardware and operating systems (typically Linux distributions) and additional software as necessary.
  • Support day to day operations and maintenance.
• Maintain IT components as needed. Configure and maintain networking and site infrastructure (switches, routers, security components, VPNs etc.)
• Diagnose and fix hardware or software problems as necessary in supported systems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, MS preferred.
• 5+ years of system administration and support experience. Consideration will be given to lesser and more experienced candidates.
• Knowledge of network security applications, including (but not limited to) firewalls, malware detection, IPS, IDS (e.g. Snort), routing, switching, IPsec and SSL.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Proficiency in one or more of Python, Perl, Java.
• Experience in Quality Assurance of networking products.
• Able to create and execute test plans.
• Able to implement (automated) tests using Python.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Excellent organization and time management abilities.

Test Developer

Pittsburgh

Description

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain functional and performance system test suites. This may include:
  • Writing detailed (step by step) test descriptions and test plans. This may include test plans for APIs, command line interfaces, web based or other management interfaces.
  • Assessing coverage of existing tests with the objective of eliminating gaps in coverage.
  • Developing new tests or test suites.
  • Executing tests, manually or via test automation and generating
• Debug system and correct issues, identifying if the issue is in test code or product code.
• Verify that previously found issues have been resolved.
• Measure component and system performance, manually or via automated tests. Diagnose performance regressions by identifying module at fault or configuration errors.
• Participate in design and code reviews.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of computer networking or software development experience. Consideration will be given to lesser and more experienced candidates.
• Knowledge of network security applications, including (but not limited to) firewalls, malware detection, IPS, IDS (e.g. Snort), routing, switching, IPsec and SSL.
• Proficiency with network protocols, tunneling, security and associated cryptography, e.g. IPSec and SSL.
• Ability to create test plans for systems, components and well as for performance verification.
• Ability to design, develop and execute tests and test suites.
• Proficiency with Javascript, Python, Perl and shell scripting.
• Proficiency with revision control systems, Git or Mercurial.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Linux Application Developer

Pittsburgh

Description

Netronome is currently seeking multiple Linux Application Developers at all levels to develop, enhance and maintain high performance, network and security oriented applications on Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain high performance, network and security oriented applications on Linux. This may include:
  
  • Enhancing and extending the functionality of Open Source components, e.g. Snort, strongSwan, as well as in-house components.
  • Implement APIs for monitoring and management.
  • Participate in design and code reviews.
• Troubleshooting, performance analysis and optimization.
• Ensure product quality.
  
  • Develop unit tests for assigned components
  • Fix bugs and regression test during development as well as during product release cycles.
  • Provide assistance as needed for customer issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of computer networking or software development experience. Consideration will be given to lesser and more experienced candidates.
• Experience with internals of network security applications, including (but not limited to) firewalls, malware detection, IPS, IDS (e.g. Snort), routing, switching, IPsec and SSL.
• Proficient with network protocols, tunneling, security and associated cryptography, e.g. IPSec and SSL.
• Proficient with C / C++ and shell scripting.
• Proficient with revision control systems, Git or Mercurial.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Software design and implementation experience in Python and Perl.
• Experience with low level programming, embedded devices, NPUs, SoCs, IXP microengines.
• Knowledge of common system hardware interfaces (PCIe, SPI3/4, GMII, I2C, DDR SDRAM, TCAM, others).

Linux Kernel Developer

Pittsburgh

Description

Netronome is currently seeking multiple NFP Developers at all levels to develop, enhance and maintain Linux network drivers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain Linux network drivers. This may include drivers that support SR-IOV, virtio and DPDK-poll mode, as well as PF and VF interfaces.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Diagnose and correct functional and performance problems in kernel components.
  • Developing and running unit tests. Proactively addressing problems found.
  • Fixing bugs and regression testing during product release cycles.
• Track developments in the Linux kernel, particularly high performance networking, and participate in the Linux community. Be responsible for upstreaming drivers, other modules or patches to the Linux or other Open Source communities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of computer networking or software development experience. Consideration will be given to lesser and more experienced candidates.
• Experience developing and debugging Linux network drivers and network stack functions.
• Proficient with network protocols, tunneling, security and associated cryptography, e.g. IPSec and SSL.
• Working knowledge of routers, switches, load balancers, virtualized servers, VPN gateways, firewalls, IDS/IPS and others.
• Proficient in C / C++ and shell scripting.
• Proficient with revision control systems, Git or Mercurial.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

NFP Developer

Pittsburgh

Description

Netronome is currently seeking multiple NFP Developers at all levels to develop, enhance and maintain fast path packet processing code, running on a Network Processing Unit.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain fast path packet processing code - Implementation may be in micro-C or microcode (assembler) as appropriate to the module.
• Ensure quality and stability of the code, through a combination of unit tests, system tests and code reviews.
• Ensure code meets performance requirements, through benchmarking, profiling and code optimization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of computer networking or software development experience. Consideration will be given to lesser and more experienced candidates.
• Experience with packet processing on Intel IXP, Netronome NFP, Cavium, Broadcom or other NPUs or SoCs.
• Experience with network security applications, including (but not limited to) firewalls, malware detection, IPS, IDS, routing, switching, IPsec and SSL.
• Proficiency with network protocols, tunneling, security and associated cryptography, e.g. IPSec and SSL.
• Proficiency with C. Experience and ability to program in assembler is strongly desired.
• Proficiency with revision control systems, Git or Mercurial.
• Proficiency with development using Linux.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Technical Marketing Engineer

Santa Clara

Description:

The purpose of this position is to perform the role of a Technical Marketing Engineer, owning Netronome’s Marketing Lab, engaging with Technical partners on PoCs, creating customer/event demos that highlight Netronome Agilio’s value proposition for target markets, and supporting Marketing on collateral creation and events.

Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain lab environment for customer and field access and use
• Performance benchmarking and results analysis
• Collateral generation experience: white papers, solution briefs, product videos
• Technical resource for field application engineers on features and operation of products
• Work with external partners to create product demos for marketing and sales

Requirements

• 3-5 years’ experience in IT, Marketing, working with internal and external customers
• BSEE, CE, CS required
• Competent in TCP/IP networking in a wide variety of Linux distributions (Other OSes a plus)
• Knowledge of Networking data path programming and associated tools
• Knowledge in requirements for server virtualization, network virtualization, NFV, and network orchestration
• Experience with network control and orchestration using technologies such as Open Daylight and OpenStack
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Public speaking/webinar presentation to large audiences

Principal Software Engineer

Santa Clara

Description

Netronome Systems, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to work in our Santa Clara, CA office and to lead the team of software engineers responsible for the design, development, testing, debugging and support of high-performance embedded networking microcode written for a highly parallelized, multi-threaded, many-core hardware architecture, including microcode acceleration of Open vSwitch (OVS) by means of hardware offload of Linux Kernel flow classification, processing and caching, as well as other embedded systems software development. The candidate will participate in the design and implementation of new emerging networking standards in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and OVS, as well as ensure that architecture meets functional requirements and performance goals. The candidate will implement design in microcode and verify performance requirements using realistic network traffic loads while working with industry experts to ensure compatibility with the appropriate standards bodies' specifications.

Responsibilities:

Must know (from any completed university-level coursework, seminars, workshops, or real-world, hands-on experience):

• Embedded systems and embedded programming skills (C/C++);
• Microcode software development for IXP/NFP hardware architecture (Microcode assembler);
• Domain specific packet processing language;
• One of the following scripting languages: bash, bourne, shell, Perl, or Python;
• Development/debugging on Linux platform (revision control systems, build systems, troubleshooting and debugging);
• Major network protocols (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP); and
• High-performance network device internals (parsing, classifying, filtering, traffic forwarding, load balancing, packet manipulation, and flow cache acceleration).

Requirements:

• Must have a Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or directly related field; plus three (3) years of software engineering experience.
• Alternate requirement: Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a directly related field of study plus five (5) years of post-baccalaureate and progressively responsible years of software engineering experience.

Send resume to J. Adams, Netronome Systems, 3159 Unionville Road, Suite 100, Cranberry Township, PA 16066.

Software QA Engineer

Cape Town/Centurion

Description

The QA Engineer's primary task is to perform white-box and blackbox testing of the company's hardware and software products. This individual will build test software to expose API defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature levels.

Responsibilities

• Review engineering technical specifications and attend review meetings
  
• Meet with developers to discuss technical aspects of features
  
• Design and author test cases for assigned feature areas of a release
  
• Design and build testing tools for automated unit, functional, and performance testing
• Develop Linux and Windows based test applications to exercise and validate firmware and embedded software
  
• Define and execute test procedures
  
• Work with developers on reproducing and researching defects
  
• Track and manage defects on a day to day basis
  
• Setup and maintain lab test environments
  
• Provide QA Support for Field trials of various products
  
• Participate in all activities accordingly to ensure on-time deliverables are met including day-to-day planning and coordination with other QA engineers and software/hardware developers

Requirements

• MS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or a BS Degree and two years of experience
• C/C++ programming and scripting (Perl/Python/Shell) experience
• Working experience in Linux open source development (gcc, g++, make)
• Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, SSL) experience

Software Engineer

Cape Town/Centurion

Description

The Software Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, debugging, testing and support of high-performance networking software. Contributions to include embedded and/or system software development.

Responsibilities

• Construct data structure and algorithms
• Write quality code
• Explore innovative technical solutions
• Test and debug code
• Contribute to feature definition and design
• Examine feature feasibility and estimate development time
• Work with the team to meet project deadlines
  

Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Proficiency with embedded/systems programming skills (C/C++) and scripting languages (e.g. bash, bourne shell, Python)
• Experience with development and debugging on a Linux platform - gcc/g++, revision control systems, build systems, troubleshooting, debugging and profiling tools
• Experience with embedded systems and embedded software development
• Experience with multi-threaded programming
• Knowledge of major network protocols such as TCP, IP, HTTP, Ethernet, ARP, ICMP, UDP as well as typical network device operations such as parsing, classifying, filtering and forwarding traffic
• Knowledge of implementation of network protocols and device driver/network stack internals for Linux and/or other embedded operating systems
• Familiarity with software development methodology best practices and processes such as waterfall, agile, and software release cycles

Software Engineer (Kernel Development)

United Kingdom

Description

Netronome is a proud member of the Linux kernel community. We have participated in a number of exciting new efforts in the networking stack. Our kernel engineers are also participating in development of embedded products. Netronome is currently seeking Software Engineers. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, debugging, testing and support of high-performance networking software. Contributions to include embedded and/or system software development.

Responsibilities

The Software Engineer will be expected to work with other software developers and hardware developers at Netronome to design and develop host code and associated drivers (for Netronome SmartNICs) for popular server operating systems e.g. Linux. Most, if not all of the code developed is expected to be submitted upstream to the Linux (or equivalent) kernel mailing lists. The Software Engineer will construct data structure and algorithms; write quality code; explore innovative technical solutions; test and debug code; contribute to feature definition and design; examine feature feasibility and estimate development time; work with team to meet deadlines. Performing any and all such other professional duties or tasks as may be required.

Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science

• Experience working with the upstream community

• Knowledge of major network protocols such as TCP, IP, HTTP, Ethernet, ARP, ICMP, UDP

• Very good understanding of Linux internals

• Experience with CPU and memory architectures

• Experience developing high quality C code

• Experience working on device drivers

• Knowledge of basic bash, Python

• Experience with upstreaming patches preferred

• Experience working with Linux networking stack preferred

• Experience with advanced networking knowledge preferred

• Experience working on Linux-based embedded systems preferred

• Compiler knowledge preferred

• Experience working with complex architectures and heterogeneous systems preferred

• Exposure to eBPF preferred

• Experience working with ARM architecture preferred

Benefits

• Upstream work

• Flat management

• Appreciation for employee initiatives

• Attending conferences

Senior Software Engineer (Compilers)

United Kingdom

Description

As a leading networking solutions provider, Netronome unites the speed and flexibility of software innovation with the performance and scalability of hardware, bringing the efficiencies of mega-scale data centers to mainstream server networking.

Netronome products run on industry-standard server hardware and provide modern data center functions such as network virtualization, security, load balancing, and telemetry to fast-growing software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications, and are optimally designed for x86 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server-based compute and service node applications. Netronome has already found significant success with tier-one customers such as Akamai, Blue Coat, Cisco and NTT Communications, providing high-performance x86 co-processing solutions for networking, security, load balancing, virtualization and SDN.

Netronome is currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Compilers) to work in the company’s Cambridge, United Kingdom office. This position is an individual technical leadership role, with particular emphasis on developing and optimizing a compiler for a family of highly threaded multi-core processors. The compiler is the core tool in a comprehensive IDE (Integrated Development Environment). The individual will work directly with the software development community (internal and external) to ensure the functional correctness and performance of compiler syntax.

Responsibilities:

• Create performance analyses, generate whitepapers and architectural documents through the Phase Review process, leading to the production of the “best-of-breed” toolchain for 64-bit highly threaded multi-core architectures;
• Design, implement and use models of architectural options at a high level to provide data for analysis;
• Generate consensus through reviews of documented analysis, and hence help to provide a data-driven approach to agreed architectures.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field plus at least five years of experience in networking and communications or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field plus at least seven years of experience in customized compiler development;
• Very detailed knowledge of compiler frontends (“parser”) and related tools;
• Detailed Knowledge of LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) compiler and toolchain technologies, with a proven track record for the development of a highly-optimized code generator and low memory usage for a number of different processor architectures (e.g. 64-bit ARM, NFP family);
• Considerable experience in processor architecture modeling using high level languages such as Python;
• Ability to analyze performance from simulation models, and to optimize accordingly.

Salary Range: £70,000 to £90,000 depending on experience.

Closing Date: June 30

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

United Kingdom

Description

As a leading networking solutions provider, Netronome unites the speed and flexibility of software innovation with the performance and scalability of hardware, bringing the efficiencies of mega-scale data centers to mainstream server networking.

Netronome products run on industry-standard server hardware and provide modern data center functions such as network virtualization, security, load balancing, and telemetry to fast-growing software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications, and are optimally designed for x86 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server-based compute and service node applications. Netronome has already found significant success with tier-one customers such as Akamai, Blue Coat, Cisco and NTT Communications, providing high-performance x86 co-processing solutions for networking, security, load balancing, virtualization and SDN.

Netronome is currently seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to work in the company’s Cambridge, United Kingdom office. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will work with other software and hardware engineers at Netronome to design and develop host code and associated drivers (for Netronome SmartNICs) for popular server operating systems e.g. Linux, to be submitted upstream to the Linux (or equivalent) kernel mailing lists.

Responsibilities:

• Construct data structure and algorithms;
• Write quality code;
• Explore innovative technical solutions;
• Test and debug code;
• Contribute to feature definition and design;
• Examine feature feasibility and estimate development time; and
• Work with team to meet deadlines.

Qualifications:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field;
• Experience working with the upstream community;
• Knowledge of major network protocols such as TCP, IP, HTTP, Ethernet, ARP, ICMP, UDP;
• Very good understanding of Linux internals;
• Experience with CPU and memory architectures;
• Experience developing high quality C code;
• Experience working on device drivers;
• Knowledge of basic bash and Python.

Salary Range: £50,000 to £80,000 depending on experience.

Closing Date: June 30