Linux Kernel OS Developer
📌Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ entry-level
hybrid
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open Source? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Your favorites are Linux and low-level programming? If so, our team is the right place for you! We are building up an IBM team in the entirely new development location Waterford. The team will be responsible for enhancing the Linux kernel for IBM Z / IBM LinuxOne. This will include device drivers, new processor instructions, virtualization (KVM), confidential containers, and test automation (CI/CD).
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a key member of our new team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences. Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding, problem determination and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream community repositories, and solving client problems.This position requires working onsite 3 days per week.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Strong desire to work on low-level software development within the Linux operating system kernel (e.g. based on C/C++)
- Interested in joining open source development communities
- Understanding of operating systems internals (e.g. memory management & task scheduling, interrupts, device drivers)
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Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
- Previous contributions to Open Source projects Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA)
- Skills in IBM Z architecture ("Principles of Operations"), Z assembler and I/O concepts
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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