Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices
Build and harden OS foundations for AI consumer devices, spanning kernel, services, security, performance, and application interfaces. Requires strong systems programming in C/C++, kernel experience, and debugging skills.
About the job
What you will do
- Work on end-to-end OS capabilities: kernel, userspace services, application frameworks, UI toolkits, APIs.
- Develop/maintain OS components: scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers, IPC/RPC, security subsystems.
- Build core OS services/daemons: init, service management, device discovery, networking, time, logging, updates, crash handling.
- Design/implement security/privacy: secure boot, MAC/sandboxing, secrets management, privacy telemetry.
- Establish performance/power discipline: instrumentation, profiling, power measurement, energy tuning.
- Build debugging/observability: ftrace, perf, eBPF, crash triage.
- Provide stable platform interfaces: Wayland, input/graphics, system APIs for permissions/notifications.
- Contribute to reliability: hardening, incident response, testing.
Required qualifications
- Strong experience with systems programming (Linux/BSD), kernel work (drivers/subsystems).
- Professional proficiency in C, C++.
- Experience building/maintaining core OS services/platform software.
- Track record debugging kernel/userspace issues with tracing/profiling.
- Familiarity with OS security: isolation, privilege separation, secure IPC.
Strongly preferred
- Production Rust in systems contexts.
- OS security hardening: SELinux/AppArmor, seccomp, namespaces.
- Observability: eBPF, perf pipelines.
- Performance/power optimization.
- Supporting app/UI frameworks at OS boundary.
Nice to have
- Hardware bring-up.
- OTA/update systems.
- Upstream OSS contributions (Linux kernel).
Skills
C, C++, Rust, Linux, Ebpf, Perf, Ftrace, Wayland, Selinux, Seccomp
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