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IBM Z System Software Developer (m/w/x), Millicode

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IBM Z System Software Developer (m/w/x), Millicode

Böblingen, Germany

Introduction
High availability with zero downtime, 100% data encryption, and high-performance data access - these are some of the features of the IBM Z Enterprise Computing Platform, also known as the IBM Mainframe.

In our development center in Böblingen, we work with the latest methods on central components of the IBM Z firmware. With our hardware-oriented development, which represents the software interface for the future IBM Z processor generation, we shape cutting-edge technologies at the highest quality level.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are creating IBM Z Millicode to control basic hardware functions. This code is the link between the concrete hardware implementation and the abstracted IBM Z processor architecture, ensuring that important hardware functions can be efficiently addressed by the operating system.

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Are you passionate about modern processor architecture and want to sustainably shape the IBM Z firmware landscape around Millicode development?

Then apply now!

Your Tasks Include:
  • Implementing system processes and microfunctionality using assembler programming
  • Ensuring the highest reliability and best runtime behavior
  • Contributing and expanding the IBM Z architecture
  • Writing test cases and executing them, e.g. by using simulated hardware
  • Error analysis and troubleshooting in complex scenarios
  • Supporting the introduction of new processor systems

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Completed Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a comparable technical field
  • Be curious and have fun to learn!
  • Interest in assembler programming
  • Profound knowledge of procedural/imperative programming
  • Profound knowledge of at least one scripting language, preferably Python
  • Communicative and enjoy working in an agile and international team
  • Language Skills: English - Fluent

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Good knowledge of agile software development
  • Experience with Git
  • Base knowledge of Computer Architecture / CPU Architecture
  • Good knowledge in C/C++ or Assembler programming
  • Language Skills: German - Advantageous

Client-provided location(s): 71 Böblingen, Germany
Job ID: IBM-21405680
Employment Type: Full Time

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