Linux Performance Developer - Linux Kernel
📌Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
- Analyze, measure, and optimize system performance across the full Linux stack-kernel, drivers, user-space services, and applications.
- Profile CPU, memory, I/O, GPU, and power usage to identify performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
- Develop and deploy performance monitoring and tracing tools (e.g., perf, ftrace, eBPF, systemtap, trace-cmd, BPFtrace).
- Work closely with kernel, power, graphics, boot, and user-space teams to tune and enhance system responsiveness and throughput.
- Optimize boot time, application launch latency, and system suspend/resume cycles for better end-user experience.
- Tune scheduler, interrupt handling, memory management, and I/O subsystems for target hardware platforms.
- Validate performance under various workloads (interactive, background, thermal stress) and ensure consistent behavior.
- Collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to align software performance with platform power and thermal constraints.
- Automate performance regression testing and define KPIs to track across software releases.
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Investigate and resolve thermal throttling, CPU/GPU frequency scaling, and battery drain issues in coordination with power and thermal teams.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Linux performance analysis and tuning on embedded or consumer platforms.
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals : process scheduling, memory management, NUMA, file systems, block devices, I/O stack, etc.
- Strong proficiency with performance tools : perf, top, htop, vmstat, iotop, powertop, ftrace, strace, systemtap, LTTng, eBPF, systemd-analyze, bootchart, blktrace, oprofile
- Experience with power-performance tuning frameworks such as CPUFreq, devfreq, cpuidle, and thermal frameworks.
- Familiar with kernel tuning interfaces : /proc, /sys, cgroups, udev, sysctl.
- Skilled in C, Python, and shell scripting for automation and data processing.
- Experience in benchmarking tools and workloads : Phoronix Test Suite, stress-ng, sysbench, fio, glmark2, etc.
- Familiarity with hardware power domains, DVFS, thermal zones, and SoC power/thermal models is a plus.
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Experience with Yocto, Debian, or Ubuntu-based OS stacks and optimizing them for consumer-grade hardware (Intel/AMD/ARM).
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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