Nvidia Bluefield Driver Engineer (C/C++)

CodiLime is a software and network engineering industry expert and the first-choice service partner for top global networking hardware providers, software providers and telecoms. They create proofs-of-concept, help clients build new products, nurture existing ones and provide services in production environments. The company has 250+ employees and operates since 2011. They develop modern network products and operating systems for leading networking equipment manufacturers, working with cloud-native, containerized software and services, as well as user-space and kernel-space drivers for advanced network equipment including switches, routers, and smart network interface cards (DPU/IPU/smartNIC).

• Proficiency in the C/C++ programming language
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of networking (L2, L3, L4, Ethernet)
• Experience in Linux device driver programming
• Theoretical and practical understanding of virtualization and containerization
• Experience in working with embedded software (flashing, booting, debugging, etc.)
• Proficiency with English (min B2+ CEFR)

Senior software engineer expectations:

• Experience in developing drivers or firmware for network interface cards (NICs); experience with Nvidia’s DPUs and/or DOCA Argus is a great advantage
• Experience with the DPDK library
• Knowledge of BPF/eBPF and/or the BPF virtual machine in the Linux kernel

Additional advantages:

• Knowledge of Cilium Tetragon
• Experience with Kubernetes operators and/or Kubernetes CNIs
• Experience with day0/day1/day2 requirements implementation for network solutions

• Research and define how to implement client requirements and ideas best
• Take part in technical discussions with the team and the client
• Develop software primarily using C/C++, with occasional use of other programming languages
• Create unit tests for your code, conduct code review, create documentation, and take part in other activities related to software development
• Fix bugs efficiently and effectively, and find workarounds for blockers
• Occasionally, take part in technical pre-sales meetings