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Introduction

As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your role and responsibilities

We are part of a world-class development team that pioneers industry-leading hardware for IBM POWER Systems servers including Storage, Quantum, and IBM Research systems.

 

The role of a I/O Development Engineers is,  E2E integration of industry standard Fibre Channel storage, high performance networking products, AI solutions and validation and system verification of the latest high performance Power Systems PCIe I/O technologies on the Linux, AIX, and IBMi operating systems.

 

This team provides Power Systems I/O product and technology definitions, validation, and support for leading-edge I/O products & technologies including Fibre-Channel, and high-speed Ethernet.

 

The work spans pre-production, initial launch, and post-production, doing I/O hardware test unit development as well as on-going validation for HW/SW updates, manufacturing support, and direct customer interaction to recreate and to provide fixes for newly discovered defects.

We work with industry leading companies to keep IBM I/O products on the cutting edge. 

 

As a core member of the IO team, you will be expected to work autonomously and deliver on project phases on time and on budget.  


Duties and Responsibilities:

-  Storage / NVMe new hardware bring-up, validation, and debug

-  PCIe attached expansion hardware bring-up, validation, and debug

-  Develop Hardware Test Units used by the Power Systems internal test teams and OS diagnostics used in customer service cases

-  Fiber Channel bring-up, validation, and debug

-  New Ethernet HW and other new I/O bring up, validation, and debug

-  PCIe standard bus bring up, validation, and debug

-  Product field support and FA (failure analysis)

-  Collaborating with hardware, firmware and OS development to debug server hardware

-  Collaboration with industry partners to update product features and fixes

-  Programming in languages such Python, PERL, and C to automate debug and to control IO and embedded protocols

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

-  Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering or equivalent

-   Experience in troubleshooting hardware and firmware defects

-   3+ years in IO hardware development

-   Demonstrated knowledge of programming in languages such as C, C++, Python and PERL

-  Broad background in analog and digital circuit design

-  Ability to manage complex product schedules and work across broad organizations

-  Self-starter, able to independently drive tasks to completion

Preferred technical and professional experience

 

-  Master of Science in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering

-  5+ years in IO hardware development

-  Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to detail

-  Strong communication skills

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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