2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Linux kernel configurations, device drivers, and board support packages.
- Optimize boot time, memory footprint, and power consumption at the operating-system level.
- Implement and maintain bootloader chains with secure boot support.
- Port and adapt RTOS components for companion microcontrollers.
- Debug kernel panics, race conditions, memory leaks, and other low-level system issues.
- Collaborate with SoC vendors on kernel patches, errata workarounds, and BSP updates.
- Own kernel upgrade strategy and long-term support branch management.
- Provide technical leadership for device software development and operations, including roadmap planning, requirements, prioritization, and feature delivery.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- At least 7 years of Linux kernel development or systems programming experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and working knowledge of ARM or RISC-V assembly.
- Experience writing or maintaining Linux device drivers, including character, block, network, and platform drivers.
- Deep understanding of MMU, DMA, cache coherency, scheduler internals, and power management frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with U-Boot, GRUB, or custom bootloaders.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: Linux kernel upstream contributions, real-time patch experience with PREEMPT_RT or Xenomai, ARM TrustZone or OP-TEE familiarity, kernel debugging experience, and RTOS development with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or ThreadX.
About Amazon
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