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Hyderabad Area, India

* Define roadmap and strategy for Tegra Kernel and IO system software for Android and Linux environments. Driving 3-party Kernels to production.* Motivating and Driving Innovation across employees at the Hyderabad site as the PIC* Deliver Kernel IO Software for next-generation Tegra SoCs used in AI, telepresence, drones, gaming consoles, and automotive applications.* Develop Bootloader and Kernel device driver software for various IOs & peripherals by collaborating with hardware, software, and system engineering teams.* Manage software migration across various Linux kernels and Android OS versions, ensuring team alignment and contributing to upstreaming/downstreaming efforts.* Lead pre-silicon and production software development for Tegra SOCs, supporting the Linux/Embedded Community for the Jetson product line.* Provide technical direction and manage software engineering teams.* Offer software support for automotive customers (Tesla, Daimler, Toyota, Audi, Volkswagen, Bosch, Harman), embedded systems (Jetson TK1/TX1/TX2), telepresence (Cisco), and gaming systems (Nintendo Switch).* Identify training needs and coordinate technical sessions for employees at Nvidia’s Hyderabad site.* Ensure seamless integration of software with hardware and system engineering teams for optimal performance.* Drive software development for diverse platforms including AI, telepresence, drones, gaming consoles, and automotive.

Hyderabad Area, India

* Driving DDK driver model to support multiple OSes including WinCE/WinMobile for IOs NAND,NAND FTL, NOR, USB, UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, GPIO, and Pinmux.* Transition from WinMobile to Linux for IO and peripheral drivers.* Delivering production software for Tablet/Phone reference platforms and customers (Motorola,HTC, Asus, Acer, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba, Nexus7/9, ZTE, and NVIDIA Shield).* Hands on experience in BootROM, Bootloader and Kernel drivers.

Hyderabad Area, India

* Building Platform team for Silicon Validation, bringup, and productization of PortalPlayer SOCs* Core software development and customer support for Nand, USB, HSMMC, I2C, SPI, UART, VFIR,SIR, FIR, I2S, Hardware Codec, RTC, DMA interfaces.* Design and development of USB device/Host & Ethernet drivers. Develop USB2.0 Compliancesoftware.

United States

* Development and testing of device library for UART and Timer under pSOS and VxWorks* Development of BSP for Motorola 68K board* Development of Layer2/Layer3 microcode for Network processor and DHCP/BGP protocol onPowerPC architecture

Hyderabad Area, India

* Leading and development of SNMP agent software using OOAD and C++* Development of Quality documentation and review

Hyderabad Area, India

* Development of Board Support package and device drivers for RTUs under VxWorks* Development of pHILE system driver under pSOS* Development of BSP and Uart driver under Virtuoso for EZ-LAB* Be an internal Quality representative to make sure the software development is followed Qualityguidelines.

Bengaluru Area, India

* Develop VHDL code for CPLD/FPGA programming* Board design and debug hardware issues* Development of Serial driver for x86 based CPU boards under iRMK

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B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engg.