Intern, System Software Engineer - CXL

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What You’ll Learn

• Project Overview:
  • Cognos SVK CXL – Cognos is a rack scale Software management cum performance enhancer software to ease the deployment, monitoring and increase performance for customer using Samsung’s wide portfolio of memory products. Software value add (SVK) CXL (Compute eXpress Link) addresses the multi tiers deployments involving Samsung CXL device with other memory tiers. This module is responsible for making sure that hotter pages are always moved towards the faster tier, both with device and at system level
• Skills You’ll Learn:
  • System Software
  • Infrastructure as a service
  • Memory Management in a typical server architecture
  • Heterogeneous multi-tier memory hierarchy
  • Bus interface protocols like PCIe and CXL
  • Exposure to distributed System, In-memory database, networking and performance benchmarking  
  • Exposure to Linux kernel internals
  • Exposure to REST based system architecture

What You’ll Do

Cognos is software intended to increase the overall value for large highly scalable infrastructure customers, using wide range of memory devices form Samsung. Cognos is a multi-faceted software addressing the need of the customers for easy deployment and quench their applications thirst to extract the most optimal performance from the heterogeneous memory devices.

The role is to be part of the Cognos team in building performance and manageability features of Cognos  

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy

Reports to: Staff Engineer, Software Development Infrastructure Engineering

• Design and development of Cognos Management Console and Auto-tier module
• Build and testing of REST APIs for Cognos modules
• Research algorithms to optimize performance in a multi-tier memory hierarchy
• Performance analysis of the Cognos Auto-tier using benchmarking tools like YCSB
• Integration and Unit testing of Cognos modules
• Deployment of Cognos in Clustered infrastructure
• Collaborate with the team, attend daily standups, update JIRA tasks assigned and send out weekly status report
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

What You Bring

• Currently pursuing Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Architecture or related field
• Must have at least 1 academic quarter/semester remaining
• Strong software engineering skills with efficient, maintainable and testable C/C++/Python is required
• Experience in storage system and/or database software design & development, debug
• Experience in CXL and/or multi-tier memory management would be an advantage
• Good working knowledge of the Linux Operating System – kernel space programming, File Systems, NVMe, PCIe.
• Prior knowledge of In-memory databases would be a plus
• You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people.
• An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding.
• You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches.
• Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.

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