Nintendo Jobs – Senior Device Driver Software Engineer

Job Description:

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo Switch™ system and the Nintendo 3DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold billions of video games and hundreds of millions of hardware units globally, including Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS™ family of systems, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™, Wii™, and Wii U™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names, such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokémon. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo Technology Development, based in Redmond, Washington, creates future hardware/software technology and researches North American-based technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and develop device drivers for current and future gaming consoles
• Participate in architecture definition and documentation
• Implement robust embedded software using modern C++ constructs
• Develop unit tests for software components that you own

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• Ability to use a logic analyzer or oscilloscope for debug and validation
• Knowledgeable of lower level device driver topics such as DMA, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, use of memory barrier instructions
• Ability to read and understand an existing platform software written in C++
• Proficient with fundamental computer science data structures and algorithms

Qualification & Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience developing device drivers for complex SOCs, and have a fundamental understanding of power and clock tree initialization
• 5+ years’ experience developing multithreaded software

Job Details:

Company: Nintendo

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Seattle, WA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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