Senior Software Engineer - Automotive Kernel Linux Engineering (Ireland)

Red Hat's Automotive Kernel Linux Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us on Red Hat's In-Vehicle Operating System deployments. In 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.

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• Familiarity in early boot flow of Arm processors
  
• Experience working with chip manufacturers, automotive manufacturers, 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
  

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