Landing Team Kernel Engineer

Job. No: 1384

  • Category: Member Services
  • Company: Linaro
  • Region: North American based

Your role will be to advise and collaborate on the development and upstreaming of the Linux kernel support for a specific SoC and target development boards.

Landing Team Summary: A landing team is a team composed of Linaro engineers, and engineers from a specific SoC vendor. The team is formed for a specific period of time, usually 6 to 12 months to tackle a specific set of problems related to Linux and a particular SoC. Currently landing teams are focusing efforts on kernel enablement and kernel upstreaming for member SoCs.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

  • Keenly understands ARM based hardware support in the Linux kernel and userspace applications.
  • Provides design and code review expertise to accelerate the upstreaming of specific silicon platform code.
  • Works with platform kernel specialists to ensure common frameworks and facilities are available to accelerate enablement and improve system stability.
  • Collaborates with other teams in Linaro and with upstream developers where appropriate.

Personal Skills

Required skills and experience:

  • Capacity to learn new systems and techniques quickly.
  • Excellent experience in embedded Linux kernel development.
  • Experience with ARM related kernel components and drivers.
  • Ability to work closely with engineers at other organizations enabling Linux on ARM based devices, providing code review, guidance and training.
  • Understanding of current trends in Linux kernel development, including device trees, performance events and ftrace.
  • Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self discipline and self motivation, delivering according to a schedule.
  • Strong English communication skills, especially over phone, email and IRC.

Desired skills and experience:

  • Experience with Debian or Ubuntu ARM ports, or ARM CPU's in general.
  • Familiarity with open source development tools and methodology.
  • Experience submitting code to upstream projects.
  • Ability to mentor less experienced team members on Linux, open source software and upstreaming of code.

Travel:

Landing team members are expected to participate in a landing team kickoff meeting, all Linaro Connect events, plus one or more development “sprints” involving international travel.

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