Oracle · 12 hours ago
Software Developer 5 (OS Kernel)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$97K/yr - $252K/yrOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Software Developer 5 focused on OS Kernel to join their team. The role involves developing GPU device drivers and debugging issues related to GPU architecture in a fast-paced environment critical to OCI's success.
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Responsibilities
As a member of the software engineering division, you will be required to have in depth knowledge of Nvidia and AMD GPU architecture working in a fast paced development environment on projects critical to OCI's success
You must demonstrate a good knowledge of GPU drivers including building and debugging issues related to them
You will regularly engage in debugging issues that are seen during new product bring up and at data centers running customer workloads including driving those issues with GPU vendors to resolution
All OCI engineers are expected to be on call periodically to handle OCI data center escalations
Must be comfortable with CI/CD pipelines to take vendor SW drops and build customized drivers against Oracle Linux and Ubuntu distributions, unit test functionality and run GPU workloads to validate performance using standard benchmarks
In addition, you should have working knowledge of the entire boot process including touch points with the BIOS and the BMC subsystems
We need engineers who show strong technical and communication skills as they engage with cross functional teams such as the HW and FW teams to debug issues and to ultimately drive OCI success
Qualification
Required
Experience working with GPU device drivers and runtime libraries (CUDA and ROCM)
Understanding of GPU architectural concepts such as UVM, host to device and device to host interactions
Ability to quantify performance issues in GPU interactions
Strong experience in building and debugging issues in GPU drivers and Linux kernels
Experience with functional and performance issues when running GPU AI/ML/inference workloads
Ability to use standard tools targeted for performance and stress such as DCGM, NCCL and RCCL suites
Experience debugging and diagnosing issues reported via RAS events notified via GPU BMC and other monitoring agents
Broad knowledge in BIOS, CPU and GPU BMC
Strong proficiency in C programming
Working knowledge in Python or other scripting languages used in AI/GPU environments
In-depth knowledge of Nvidia and AMD GPU architecture
Good knowledge of GPU drivers including building and debugging issues
Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines to take vendor SW drops and build customized drivers against Oracle Linux and Ubuntu distributions
Ability to unit test functionality and run GPU workloads to validate performance using standard benchmarks
Working knowledge of the entire boot process including touch points with the BIOS and BMC subsystems
Strong technical and communication skills to engage with cross-functional teams
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
Company
Oracle
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Founded in 1977
10001+ employees
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