VMware recognizes that today’s students are tomorrow’s trailblazers and we value the opportunity to benefit from your fresh perspective. If you thrive in an open, innovative, technology-driven culture, VMware could be the place for you! You will be exposed to a wide range of software platform technologies that are utilized by customers all over the world.

As a Member of Technical Staff – Kernel Engineering, you will be responsible for developing, testing and debugging VMware’s core Virtualization and Cloud Platform products. The right candidate will be responsible for ESXi operating system and core virtualization infrastructure. They will work with various kernel teams to design and deliver new functionality, mainly targeted for virtualization workloads.

As a member of VMware’s Software Defined Data Center organization you will directly contribute to the creation of the next generation of Storage, Networking, and Server Virtualization solutions. You will help deliver high quality, well-architected system software products and solutions based on a fully integrated enterprise-class virtualization platform. Your responsibilities will include design, implementation, testing, and debugging of systems software.Requirements:

• Pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering or some other relevant technical degree.

• Excellent C programming skills.

• Familiarity with kernel performance analysis and optimization

• Advanced knowledge of operating systems internals and low-level code development.

• Excellent understanding of operating system concepts and kernel components.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

• Experience in designing and developing kernel level projects

• Experience with writing high-quality, well-architected and well-documented code.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience in developing modular and extensible code.

• Strong experience with kernel level programming, performance analysis and optimization.

• Knowledge of x86 assembler, C++, Java, Perl, Python and other programming languages.

• Good understanding of modern Intel and AMD x86-based processor architectures.

• Experience with SMP, memory management, CPU management, multi-tasking and device drivers.

• Previous relevant internship experience is strongly preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience with SMP, memory and CPU power management, multi-tasking, device drivers a plus

• Good understanding of modern Intel and AMD x86-based processor architectures a plus

• Familiarity with one or more virtualization platforms a plus.

• Understanding of distributed system concepts a plus.

Why work for our Division:

VMware’s world-class, award-winning R&D team is comprised of thousands of top-notch computer scientists and software engineers that are transforming computing through virtualization. Members of the R&D team voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives, participate in exciting short-term and long-term products on the VMware roadmap, initiate advanced research projects, and/or write and test code that ships. At VMware, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and generous external education assistance program. R&D team members work on the latest computing equipment and have access to the ACM and IEEE libraries. VMware has R&D offices in: Silicon Valley; Burlington, MA; Cambridge, MA; Broomfield, CO; Sofia, Bulgaria; Aarhus, Denmark; London, UK; Herzliya, Israel; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China.

Why work with our Group:

Engineers interested in systems architecture, systems software, and distributed systems get to design and implement novel operating system techniques and algorithms for managing both virtual and real computer hardware. They work on harnessing the power of highly sophisticated computer and storage hardware.