Principal Kernel Engineer
- Hiring Organisation
- European Tech Recruit
- Location
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
this role, you will drive deep kernel performance and power optimization for flagship mobile platforms. You will own performance across core kernel subsystems — memory management, scheduling, IPC, and synchronization — analysing behaviour on real silicon down to the microarchitectural level and landing production-shippable optimizations that improve responsiveness, throughput … allocator internals, scheduler hot paths, and lock-contention traces, working alongside CPU microarchitects, runtime engineers, and AI-driven optimization tooling. Key Responsibilities Optimize Memory Management Internals: Buddy allocator, slab/SLUB, page reclaim and LRU/MGLRU, memory compaction/defragmentation, transparent huge pages, page-fault/ ...