Remote Senior Linux Kernel Engineer - Device Drivers

X4 Technology; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 96,432 - 179,088; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Open-source contributions encouraged

Job summary

X4 Technology is seeking a Senior Linux Kernel Engineer to design and develop embedded Linux device drivers for cutting-edge hardware. The role is fully remote under a long-term contract, offering a high day rate and the opportunity to contribute to Linux mainline and open-source projects across complex platforms.

You will work across embedded Linux, kernel internals, hardware bring-up and driver backports, collaborating with hardware and firmware engineers to optimise performance and

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing Linux kernel device drivers for embedded platforms.
• Proven ability to bring up new hardware and backport kernel functionality.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills in low-level software.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Linux kernel device drivers for embedded platforms.
• Bring up new hardware and peripherals and maintain kernel-space software.
• Backport drivers across multiple kernel versions and collaborate with hardware teams.
• Contribute patches to Linux kernel and open-source projects.
• Work on production-grade reliability and performance optimisations.

Skills

Embedded Linux

C

ARM/RISC-V

Linux kernel

Device drivers

SPI

I2C

UART

USB

Ethernet

Git

Yocto

Buildroot

Tools

Git

Yocto

Buildroot

Job description

X4 Technology is seeking a Senior Linux Kernel Engineer to design and develop embedded Linux device drivers for cutting-edge hardware. The role is fully remote under a long-term contract, offering a high day rate and the opportunity to contribute to Linux mainline and open-source projects across complex platforms.

You will work across embedded Linux, kernel internals, hardware bring-up and driver backports, collaborating with hardware and firmware engineers to optimise performance and