Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Networking Platforms

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.

As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Networking Platforms, you will primarily work from an HPE office in Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India, designing, developing, enhancing, troubleshooting, and debugging system and platform software for enterprise networking products across Junos and EVO environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, troubleshoot, and debug system and platform software for enterprise networking products across Junos and EVO environments.
• Develop and maintain C software, including Linux device drivers and components that interact with platform hardware, firmware, buses, and system interfaces.
• Contribute to board, system, and platform bring-up, diagnosing issues across software and hardware layers.
• Lead technical work through solution design, analysis, implementation, testing, and integration, coordinating with hardware, software, and development partners.
• Design and integrate software across platforms, contributing to the architecture of products and solutions.
• Build and support multi-threaded, multi-process, and multi-daemon systems.
• Review designs and project work against engineering standards, providing feedback to improve quality, reliability, and reduce failure risk.
• Develop and execute test plans; debug software and use test scripts and tools to verify system behavior.
• Provide technical expertise to cross-functional projects and help evaluate and integrate relevant technologies.
• Mentor junior engineers and communicate designs, risks, and technical options to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 8–12 years of relevant software engineering experience. Candidates with approximately 7 or more years may be considered if their technical depth and scope match the staff-level role.
• Strong C programming skills and experience developing platform, system, or embedded software.
• Hands-on Linux device-driver development or substantial driver-level systems experience.
• Experience with system, board, or platform bring-up and software that interacts with hardware or low-level interfaces.
• Solid understanding of operating systems, processes, and threads, plus experience with multithreaded software or complex system services.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, debugging, and systematic problem-solving.
• Experience contributing to software architecture and integrating system components into a product or platform.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain designs and discuss technical options with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to own complex work independently, ramp up quickly, and guide or mentor other engineers.

Good to Have

• Ethernet switching, enterprise networking, TCP/IP, or routing and switching experience.
• Junos, EVO, FreeBSD, C++, or comparable network operating-system experience.
• Experience with PCIe, I2C, UART, SPI, MDIO, FPGA/CPLD, x86 or ARM platforms, chassis management, virtual chassis, or Power over Ethernet.
• Familiarity with network processors, PHY/SerDes, optics, packet forwarding, high-speed interfaces, MACsec, storage, system peripherals, or telemetry.
• Interest in using AI-enabled tools thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity, with appropriate review and validation.

Benefits

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. We invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have , whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division. We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness.