Kernel Engineer
- Hiring Organisation
- Microtech Global Ltd
- Location
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Permanent
reclaim and LRU/MGLRU, memory compaction and defragmentation, transparent huge pages, page-fault and TLB-shootdown paths, copy-on-write behaviour Drive scheduler performance: run-queue and load-balancing behaviour, energy-aware scheduling, wakeup latency, task placement on heterogeneous (big.LITTLE/DynamIQ) topologies, cpufreq/cpuidle governor interaction … time classes, energy-aware scheduling Mastery of kernel synchronization: locking primitives, RCU, lock-free techniques, the ARM64 memory model and barrier semantics Proven kernel performance-analysis skills: PMU counters, ftrace/perf, eBPF, lock contention and latency analysis Strong ARM64 architecture grounding: exception levels, cache hierarchy ...