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Demonstrates extensive experience in Linux kernel driver development and leadership, with a strong focus on performance management, debugging, and collaboration across teams. Proficient in managing driver features and ensuring compatibility across multiple Linux distributions.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Linux Kernel Driver DevelopmentC Programming LanguageLeadership ExperienceKernel Debugging ToolsPCIe Device Enumeration
Tech Stack
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Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the Linux kernel driver team of up to six kernel engineers
- Own release planning, execution tracking, and delivery of driver features aligned with the product roadmap
- Participate in headcount planning, performance management, and hiring
- Perform code and design reviews
- Contribute patches and debug complex kernel issues involving PCIe/MMIO, DMA, MSI-X and interrupt handling, memory registration and address translation, command/completion rings, device reset, and error recovery
- Drive pre-silicon driver enablement using emulation, FPGA prototypes, and virtual PCIe device models
- Lead patch submission and review cycles on linux-rdma, netdev, and related mailing lists
- Keep drivers in-tree and supported across RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu distributions
- Collaborate with ASIC/silicon, firmware, libfabric provider, middleware, and validation teams
- Define and stabilize kernel/user-space interfaces including ioctls, mmap'd rings, doorbells, and dma-buf for GPU and accelerator memory
- Establish and maintain CI, regression, and stress coverage
- Own driver documentation, module packaging, and release readiness
- Triage escalations and reproduce customer-reported issues
- Translate findings into prioritized fixes and communicate status to stakeholders
- Own Linux kernel drivers for CN5000, CN6000, and CN7000 silicon generations
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of systems/kernel software engineering experience in C on Linux
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of formal or informal leadership experience, such as people manager, team lead, or tech lead
- Demonstrated interest in people management
- Hands-on Linux device driver development
- Experience with PCIe device enumeration, BAR/MMIO register access, DMA mapping, interrupt handling, locking and concurrency
- Experience with kernel debugging using crash/kdump, ftrace, perf, and kgdb
- Depth in at least one high-performance networking subsystem, such as Linux RDMA core, netdev datapath, or an upstream vendor NIC/fabric driver
- Ability to diagnose performance and correctness issues in low-latency, high-throughput data paths
- Experience contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with upstream Linux patch and review processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to represent the team's work to engineering leadership and customers
- Prior experience as a maintainer or reviewer for an upstream Linux driver
- Familiarity with HPC fabrics such as Omni-Path, InfiniBand, Slingshot, or other host fabric interface drivers
- Experience with RoCEv2, congestion control, and/or Ethernet-based RDMA deployments
- Familiarity with Ultra Ethernet specifications
- Knowledge of libfabric/OFI provider interfaces and kernel/user-space co-design
- Experience with GPUDirect RDMA, dma-buf, and CUDA/ROCm memory interoperability
- Experience with driver packaging and distro enablement for RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu
- Experience with cluster-scale benchmarking, profiling, and optimization
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity, cash, and incentives
- Health, medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Disability and life insurance
- Dependent care flexible spending account
- Accidental injury insurance
- Pet insurance
- Generous paid holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- Open Time Off (OTO) for regular full-time exempt employees
- Sick time
- Bonding leave
- Pregnancy disability leave
- Flexible work environment
- Remote work for employees residing within the United States
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Hard Skills
Linux Kernel DevelopmentDevice Driver DevelopmentKernel DebuggingPerformance TuningDMA MappingInterrupt HandlingConcurrency ControlOpen-Source ContributionDriver PackagingCluster-Scale Benchmarking
Soft Skills
Strong Communication SkillsTeam LeadershipStakeholder Engagement
Tools & Technologies
Crash/KdumpFtracePerfKGDBLibfabricCUDAROCm
Industry Keywords
PCIeHPC FabricsRDMAUltra EthernetLinux Distributions