Senior Software Engineer Automotive Kernel Linux Engineering (Ireland)

Red Hats Automotive Kernel Linux Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us on Red Hats In-Vehicle Operating System this role you will be part of a growing team focused on Linux kernel development for use in automotive real-time and industrial applications providing hardware enablement for new Arm platforms. Successful applicants must reside in a state/country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What you will do

• Work with colleagues and platform vendors to determine kernel configuration
• Participate in the broader upstream Linux community
• Backport upstream fixes to the Red Hats 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 you will bring

• 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 PREEMPTRT
• Experience with Fedora CentOS and RHEL
• Experience with debugging Linux kernel issues
• Experience with grub UBOOT UEFI

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