Diagnostics Engineer

Arista Networks is an exciting, pre-IPO startup company founded and funded by well-known Silicon Valley veterans Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton. Arista is developing a new class of integrated network solutions to address the scalability, performance, and reliability requirements of large scale HPC and Web data centers.

We are looking for people who:

  • Love to beat on new hardware
  • Enjoy building things and shipping them, truly making them work
  • Find satisfaction in creating a really well-written diagnostic
  • Care about keeping the code maintainable, preserving its integrity
  • Look for a better way, and strive to make it real
  • Care about the business too
  • Enjoy working with others who feel the same
  • Learn how things work, just for fun or out of curiosity

A strong background in these areas is a plus:

  • Ethernet
  • High-speed phys / serdes
  • How system hardware works: buses, bridge chips, FPGAs, hardware queues/FIFOs, interrupts, DMA, etc.
  • Specific technologies such as PCIe, I2C, and XAUI
  • Python programming

Core responsibilities include:

  • Bringing up new hardware
  • Creating tests to validate hardware design correctness
  • Testing the tests (making the test suite solid, and creating regression tests to make sure it stays solid)
  • Isolating and root-causing failures in those tests
  • Creating manufacturing diagnostics
  • Testing manufacturing diagnostics, making them solid, including automated regression testing of the manufacturing diagnostics themselves
  • Coordinating with the hardware engineering team on diagnostics delivery and bring-up schedules

Principals only need apply.

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