Principal Kernel Engineer
Posted 10 days 14 hours ago by Jobtailor
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB1 0
Job Description
Responsibilities 
- Optimize memory management internals
- Drive scheduler performance
- Optimize synchronization primitives and lock-heavy paths
- Analyse and improve IPC and syscall paths
- Identify bottlenecks on flagship mobile workloads
- Land production-quality kernel patches
- Collaborate with CPU microarchitects on HW-SW co-design
- Contribute to AI-assisted kernel optimization pipelines
- 10+ years of OS kernel development in C (Linux or comparable)
- Expert-level understanding of MM internals
- Deep scheduler knowledge
- Mastery of kernel synchronization
- Proven kernel performance-analysis skills
- Strong ARM64 architecture grounding