Hardware Developer

In this role you will be completely responsible for all aspects of hardware bringup, test, delivery and repair for a subset of our hardware, focusing on GPU systems. This includes running all initial bringup steps, as well as configuration checks to ensure the racks and servers were built correctly and that all expected components are recognized. It also includes performing stress testing of CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network.In this role you must use their existing experience in GPU based servers to diagnose all problems and provide actions plans to datacenter personnel, follow up on actions, and retest after repairs are completed. Excellent documentation and communication skills are required along with Linux and relevant hardware experience. You will be responsible to complete hardware bringup and test before strict deadlines. You will execute automation code from the Linux command line to bringup and test the systems, analyze the command line results and logs. You will not be required to write the bringup and test suite, but it is expected that if the python code crashes, You will attempt to diagnose what line of code is the problem and suggest a fix to the automation team. Python programming experience is not required but in this role you should be willing to learn and be interested to participate with feedback on how to fix and improve the automation. A candidate with excellent hardware and Linux skills who can also perform object oriented python programming would be ideal.In addition to the primary responsibility of bringup and test of hardware, and repair of hardware, you will be expected to engage in hands on activity with a reasonably small quantity of relevant GPU systems in the IBM Poughkeepsie lab to maintain and improve their expertise with the latest hardware and to assist in qualification activity for new hardware. This includes hands on work, joint work on firmware and BIOS with the qualification team, and joint work with the automation team. Security fixes to firmware is another aspect to this job and in this role, you are expected to oversee and help drive qualification activities for new firmware and to be responsible to upgrade firmware on systems in production using the automation suite.NAIWD24