Red Hat's Automotive Kernel Linux Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to Linux kernel development for automotive, real-time, and industrial applications, with a focus on hardware enablement for new Arm platforms. This role emphasizes upstream collaboration, kernel configuration, and support for Functional Safety in Red Hat's In-Vehicle Operating System deployments.
What You'll Do
- Work with colleagues and platform vendors to determine kernel configuration
- Participate in the broader upstream Linux community
- Backport upstream fixes to the Red Hat's In-Vehicle Operating System releases
- Analyze how the kernel and other components are supporting Functional Safe best practices
- Create and maintain kernel packages
- Contribute new development work
- Collaborate in the automotive partner ecosystem
- Collaborate with the Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product Management, Documentation, and product build teams, as well as the open source community
What We're Looking For
- Good understanding of containerization technologies such as Podman
- Experience working with container runtimes within a Linux environment
- Experience with the Android operating system, the Android build system, and Android Automotive
- Expertise in Linux device driver development, board bring-up, kernel boot optimization
- Familiarity with Device Tree and Advanced Configuration & Power Interface (ACPI)
- Knowledge of Git and upstream Linux kernel patch posting procedures, experience with upstream development
- Experience with backporting upstream code to Linux distributions, kernel configuration, building, and testing
- Familiarity of embedded systems and their ecosystems
- Ability to work on your own in a small team environment
- Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks
Nice to Have
- Familiarity in early boot flow of Arm processors
- Experience working with chip manufacturers, automotive manufactures, tier 1 suppliers
- Experience with Functional Safety concepts
- Experience with Linux network device drivers
- Experience with Linux kernel PREEMPT_RT
- Experience with Fedora, CentOS and RHEL
- Experience with debugging Linux kernel issues
- Experience with grub, UBOOT, UEFI
Technical Stack
- Linux kernel
- Arm platforms
- Podman
- Android
- Android Automotive
- Linux device drivers
- Device Tree
- ACPI
- Git
- Linux distributions
- Embedded systems
- Fedora
- CentOS
- RHEL
- grub
- UBOOT
- UEFI
- PREEMPT_RT
Team & Environment
- Size: growing team
- Structure: focused on Linux kernel development for automotive, real-time and industrial applications
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible work environments (in-office, office-flex, fully remote) depending on role requirements
- Opportunity to bring best ideas regardless of title or tenure
- Open and inclusive work culture promoting transparency, collaboration, and inclusion
- Equal opportunity and access to all voices
- Celebration of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
Work Mode
Associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Location: Ireland.
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