Sr. Software System Designer

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• SW Development Engineer - XEN and Realtime

THE ROLE

THE PERSON

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPERIENCE

8+ years of experience in Embedded Linux system software / kernel and driver development

Strong programming skills in C and Linux kernel debugging

Hands-on experience with Xen virtualization

Dom0 kernel, drivers, and I/O virtualization

DomU integration and guest driver considerations

Strong understanding of Real-Time Linux fundamentals

Determinism vs throughput trade-offs

Latency and jitter analysis and mitigation

Experience working with PREEMPT_RT kernels and real-time tuning

IRQ threading, priority inheritance, RT mutex behavior

CPU isolation, affinity, cpusets/cgroups, NOHZ/full tickless

Driver-level expertise in one or more areas

Ethernet (MAC/PHY, DMA, interrupts, NAPI)

PCIe / IOMMU / MSI-X

Storage (NVMe/SATA) or high-speed I/O

Industrial I/O (SPI/I2C/UART/GPIO) under timing constraints

Experience with performance and latency analysis tools

ftrace, perf, trace-cmd, cyclictest

Experience with Yocto BSPs

Kernel configuration, recipe integration, reproducible builds

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

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