Senior Kernel Developer - RTOS

huaweicanada; Markham; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Canada is seeking a talented professional to explore and develop real-time operating system technology for embedded devices, cloud and automotive domains. You will contribute to the next-generation RTOS, addressing scheduling, resource allocation, isolation, and IPC challenges.

The role emphasizes expert C/C++ software work, CPU architecture knowledge, and strong research-to-design capabilities to deliver high-performance OS solutions for diverse compute platforms.

Qualifications

• Expert level experience in real-time operating system design, development and integration.
• Expert level system software development, primarily in C/C++.
• Expert level CPU architecture knowledge for system software development.
• Strong ability to research complex topics and distill designs for new or existing projects.
• Excellent written and oral communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Explore real-time OS research or development for embedded devices, cloud & virtualized computing, and automotive domains.
• Contribute to next-generation RTOS technology for diverse compute platforms.
• Solve challenging scheduling, resource allocation, isolation and IPC problems in complex systems.
• Develop tooling and solutions to performance challenges in the OS.

Skills

RTOS design

C/C++

CPU architecture

Research & design

Technical communication

Job description

About the team

The Intelligent Real-Time Operating System Lab focuses on OS architecture, concurrency challenges, and optimal resource management for diverse use cases such as the compute required for AI/ML. This lab aims to innovate operating system designs for mixed-criticality environments that exceed traditional methods. The focus of this lab is to develop next-generation OS platform support to enable high performance, maximum concurrency and challenging resource management with ML/AI agents or services. Our goal is to ensure enhanced performance and reliability in increasingly complex environments that embedded devices at the edge presents.

About the job

• Exploring the real-time OS research or development targeting embedded devices, cloud & virtualized computing and automotive domain.
• Contribute and help build the next-generation real-time OS technology to power a broad range of compute platforms.
• Solve some very challenging problems around scheduling, resource allocation, isolation and IPC in very complex systems use cases.
• Focus on developing tooling and solutions to performance challenges in the system.

Qualifications

• Expert level of experience and expertise in the field of real-time operating system design, development and integration.
• Expert level of system software development (mainly C/C++).
• Expert level CPU architecture knowledge for system software development.
• Strong ability to research complex topics, distill knowledge into concrete designs and apply it to new or existing projects.
• Strong communication ability to document and present technical information and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.