Senior, Software Engineer

About the role

Position Summary... Walmart-VIZIO’s Technology – Software and Services division is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in video, audio and graphics pipeline to join their growing team. A successful candidate will contribute Embedded domain expertise and contribute to building a high performing team that can accomplish great things. This position is within the New Product Introduction (NPI) team. The team is instrumental in developing new TV models and getting them to the market. The NPI team innovates and collaborates with many other teams within the company to bring TVs with the latest technology to market.

What you'll do...

- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role

- This is a full-time, onsite role at our Dallas, TX office.

- This position is not eligible for remote work.

What you will do

- Design, develop, and maintain the core operating system, focusing on low-level, high-performance code to manage hardware-software interaction, memory, and drivers

- Collaborate on Board Support Packages (BSPs), device bring-up, and firmware development

- Work closely with cross-functional teams - product, hardware, software and cloud engineering in the design and development of new innovative TV products

- Design features for embedded devices including TVs

- Participate in architecture discussions and planning

-  Troubleshoot production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.

- Work closely with engineering team to identify root causes for issues and designing effective solutions

- Work on teams that are highly proficient in C, C++11/14/17.

- Contribute to the success of your team working with Shell-Scripts, Git, bug tracking tools.

- Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens

- Communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

What you’ll bring:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.

- 7+ years of professional software development experience, including strong hands-on embedded C and C++ development.

- Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++11/C++14/C++17/C++20).

- Understanding of ARM, x86, or other processor architectures and low-level hardware interfaces

- Deep knowledge of Linux kernel internals, memory management, and device drivers

- Expertise with Linux debugging and profiling tools (gdb, valgrind, perf, etc.).

- Technical expertise on Linux Operating system architecture and device driver model.

- Experience with AI/Machine Learning tools and workflow.

- Experience architecting overall end-to-end Linux solutions.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart is an Equal Opportunity Employer – by choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being welcoming of all people.