Principal Kernel Engineer – Linux
- Hiring Organisation
- European Tech Recruit
- Location
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Principal Kernel Engineer to drive deep Linux kernel performance, power efficiency, and system optimisation across flagship mobile platforms. Key Responsibilities Optimise Linux kernel memory management subsystems including buddy allocator, SLUB, page reclaim, MGLRU, compaction, transparent huge pages, page fault handling, TLB management, and copy-on-write behaviour … scheduler performance improvements across heterogeneous ARM big.LITTLE and DynamIQ architectures, focusing on task placement, load balancing, wakeup latency, energy-aware scheduling, and CPU frequency management Analyse and optimise synchronization mechanisms including mutexes, futexes, spinlocks, qspinlocks, RCU, seqlocks, per-CPU data structures, and memory ordering behaviour Key Requirements 10+ ...