Principal Kernel Engineer

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: Cambridge
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

Qualifications

  • 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

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Posted: July 11th, 2026