Hardware Developer

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Bangalore, IN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. Qualify and test hardware servers and components such as CPU's, Memory, Disk Drives, NIC Cards, Switch cards, O/S, Firmware, and Security Encryption used in IBM Cloud's world-wide public data centers. Responsibilities will also involve working with the hardware verification team, networking team, compute team, research, procurement, shipping, software, and development teams to fully qualify and test products before they reach the field. Collaboration and interaction with multiple vendors is also required to communicate issues, specifications, debug failures, drive improvements, and understand new product introductions.

Responsibilities

• Booting Servers to test for existence and functionality of all components
• Qualification of Server level Secure Boot and Memory Boot
• Confirming all Secure Measures and encryption measures are compliant
• Testing proprietary Baseboard Memory Control / OpenBMC on all server configurations
• Automation of tests using Redfish for new products and regression on existing products
• Qualification of each new vendor version of BMC, BIOS, and firmware code
• Hardware upgrades and network connections

Requirements

• Ability to program using Linux and Python
• Good understanding/familiarity of Python coding/Redfish/OpenBMC
• Comfortable with Server level BMC, BIOS, and firmware
• Automation of BMC and BIOS firmware updates to the field
• Familiarity with server bring-up including firmware/bios updates, bios settings, network boosting, and basic networking is very beneficial
• Clear Documentation and Communication of Results
• Strong understanding of server hardware and networking design

Nice-to-haves

• Proficient at Qualification/Verification of server & component level Hardware & Firmware Functions, and Data Analysis
• Familiarity with server hardware design including processors, memory, storage drives, I/O adapters, BIOS, and BMC
• Good understanding of server hardware and components (CPUs, DIMMs, Drives, NIC Cards, etc.)
• Safety certified to work around high voltages (480VAC and 208VAC)
• Hands on working experience in an engineering lab environment.
• Familiar with typical datacenter power, cooling infrastructure, and datacenter energy efficiency