System Software Architect

System Software Architect

• Salary dependent upon experience plus benefits
• Based in Cambridge

Our client is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through their dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, they have established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. Their products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Develop and evaluate software solutions for new SoC.
• Be a long term maintainer to a solution branch or a component such as PCI, filesystem, debug system, storage, network, scheduler, GPU driver, hypervisor, special purpose hardware accelerators etc.
• Collaborate with Open source communities to support SoC for domains like Linux Distributions, Specific kernel subsystems, Drivers, Virtualization, Security etc.
• Collaborate with internal teams and community on interfaces between stands for Basic Input Output System and kernel as well as kernel and user space.
• Enable and facilitate up-streaming.
• Work with the internal software and hardware team to improve the efficiency of software ecosystem.

Requirements

• Experience in software development on Linux platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience on programming on open-source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system, network or mobile product domains.
• Good experience and understanding of end to end software platform design.
• Good understanding of overall system architecture.
• Experience with open source development tools and collaboration methods.
• Must be able to exhibit guru-level software development expertise and architectural experience.
• Degree educated or above, preferably in IT, Computer Science and Engineering or a related major.

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