BIOS Senior/Lead Software Engineer

• Arista Software Engineering roles demand a strong and broad software engineering background
• While the primary focus area for this role is firmware, BIOS and booting software, your work will cover all aspects of software development spanning the design and development of new features, debugging problems and fine tuning code for reliability and performance
• You will own your projects from definition to deployment and customer interactions, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver
• Design, develop, integrate and maintain the low-level CPU software in Arista products
• Develop automated tests using C, C++ and Python to validate your features
• Work with hardware engineers and vendors to qualify new CPUs and related components for use in Arista products
• Track ongoing developments in the Linux Kernel and identify features and functionality of interest to Arista for our products and for internal development needs
• Work with upstream open source BIOS communities to contribute features back to the mainline
• Review and contribute to functional and design specifications written by other engineers
• Work with Customer Support Engineers and customers to analyze, mitigate and fix problems in customer networks
• Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems
• Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools
• Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista’s software development environment

Benefits

• Regular ”Snack Bash” Social Events with food and drinks!
• Biweekly Wellness webinars plus regular Wellness Week events focused on physical, mental, spiritual and financial wellness as well as career development and social activities
• Arista Gives Back: Employee Engagement Giving Drives and Volunteer events
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plan Coverage
• Life Insurance, AD&D, STD & LTD
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Programs
• PTO & Paid holidays
• 401k Plan
• On-site Gym & Showers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Flexible hours
• Employee Assistance Benefits that include mental health and backup child and elder care support
• Discounted lunches through WeBox for HQ employees
• Family planning benefits

• Ability to work independently and in small teams
• Significant hands-on experience diagnosing problems, troubleshooting issues, and fixing bugs in low-level CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader software
• BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 8 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 6 years experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 3 years experience, or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity with Linux kernel architecture, design and implementation desirable
• Expert knowledge of and extensive experience programming in C required. Knowledge of C++ and Python is desirable
• Familiarity with and experience working with the x86 and ARM CPU architectures
• Ability to communicate articulately, and document your designs and implementations clearly, and concisely
• Applied understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices
• Experience designing and developing software in CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader environments
• Understanding of IP networking architecture, design and principles desirable
• Strong software design and implementation skills
• Experience bringing up new CPU boards
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills