Principal Architect — OS & System Performance

ictjob.be; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global ICT Leader in Amsterdam seeks a senior architect to drive OS-level performance technologies and hardware-software-chip co-optimization for next-gen devices. You will shape scheduling across CPU/GPU/memory and balance performance with power and thermal constraints.

Join a cutting-edge R&D team to translate architecture and research into robust implementations on end devices, collaborating across OS, hardware, chipset, runtimes, and applications.

Qualifications

• Senior architect with extensive OS-level performance optimization experience (≤140 chars).
• Experience with hardware-software-chip co-optimization and end-device deployment (≤140 chars).
• Ability to design across OS, hardware, chipset layers from research to implementation (≤140 chars).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop hardware-software-chip co-optimization and integrated system scheduling technologies (CPU/GPU/DDR).
• Research and optimize OS-level application performance for responsiveness and smoothness.
• Design and optimize high-performance system modules and resolve bottlenecks.
• Develop APIs, runtimes, and performance-oriented system technologies.
• Track industry tech and contribute to future roadmaps for system performance.
• Drive solutions from architecture through validation and deployment on end devices.

Skills

System architecture

Performance optimization

Hardware-software co-optimization

Scheduling algorithms

CPU scheduling

GPU scheduling

Power/thermal management

Job description

The R&D Center of a global leading ICT company, based in Amsterdam.

We are looking for a senior architect to drive the design and development of advanced OS-level system performance technologies and Hardware-software-chip co-optimization for next-generation computing devices.

The role focuses on system scheduling and performance optimization across CPU, GPU, memory, operating system, and chipset layers, balancing performance, power consumption, and thermal constraints. You will work across operating system, Hardware, chipset, runtime, and application layers, driving technologies from architecture and research through implementation and deployment on end devices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Hardware-software-chip co-optimization and integrated system scheduling technologies, including CPU/GPU/DDR scheduling, priority management, task grouping, core selection, frequency scaling, resource allocation, and performance/power/thermal-aware scheduling.
• Research and optimize application performance at the OS level, improving application interaction, responsiveness, animation smoothness, and overall system performance.
• Design and optimize high-performance core system modules and resolve critical system performance bottlenecks.
• Research and develop high-performance APIs, runtimes, application frameworks, and performance-oriented system technologies.
• Track advanced industry technologies and academic research and contribute to future technical roadmaps for system performance, scheduling, and Hardware-software co-optimization.
• Drive technical solutions from architecture and research through implementation, validation, and deployment on end devices.