Kernel engineers VMware Inc. palo alto, CA & cambridge, MA

I recently left Sun Microsystems and am now at VMware Inc. We have a number of openings for software engineers, if you are interested or have questions feel free to drop me a line. Below is our general job description and contact info for one of our recruiters.

-Barry

VMware is looking for strong OS kernel developers who can also work on distributed systems and on exploiting new hardware capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
You will be responsible for developing the core kernel for an enterprise-class virtualization platform. Duties will include design, implementation, testing and debugging. Engineer will also interact with other groups outside of engineering.

REQUIREMENTS:
Experience and Education: MS/PhD and 5yrs+ experience

You must have strong analytical and debugging skills and must be experienced in developing modular and extensible operating system code in C. Must possess a good sense of performance characteristics of kernel code and how to optimize it. A strong backg round in computer hardware and architecture is desirable.

Good communication skills are required along with the ability to work in a large team and project environment.

Experience and Education:
MS/PhD and 5yrs+ experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Extensive experience on low-level, kernel-level code development.

- A passion for writing high-quality, well-architected and well-documented code in C.

- A strong background in computer hardware and architecture.

- Strong track record of developing successful products, from inception to delivery.

- Intel CPU architecture.

- Intel-based server architecture.

- BIOS, EFI, ACPI.

- CPU scheduling and memory management.

- Distributed systems knowledge.

- PCI Express, Infiniband.

- Extensible OS kernels.

send your emails:
mwalton@vmware.com.