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Software Engineer: Linux Driver and Kernel Developer

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9 hours ago
Beaverton, OR, USA +3 moreSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with designers and architects to understand functional IP blocks and their use cases.
  • Implement BSPs and perform software bring-up on pre- and post-silicon platforms.
  • Develop Linux device drivers and user-space tests for exercising and validating complex SoC subsystems.
  • Debug and root-cause hardware and software issues, including kernel-space problems.
  • Validate GPUs and other systems using graphics, compute, stress, and conformance workloads.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Experience with embedded Linux kernel development.
  • Experience programming in C.
  • Preferred: experience with ARM architecture and the Linux graphics stack, including Mesa, Vulkan, OpenGL, and GPU compute.
  • Preferred: experience validating GPUs with graphics and compute workloads, stress tests, or conformance suites such as Vulkan CTS and igt-gpu-tools.
  • Preferred: knowledge of Linux kernel internals, networking or storage subsystem architecture, and kernel-space debugging.
  • Preferred: device driver development for USB, networking, graphics, video, storage, or power management.
  • Preferred: experience with user-space system validation, user-space APIs, and porting or maintaining a Linux distribution for a platform.

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10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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