Senior Architect – Android Tiered Memory Systems

Lexarenterprise; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lexar Enterprise is seeking a senior technical leader to define and drive the architecture of a new tiered memory system for Android and embedded Linux devices. You will oversee Linux memory management, zram/zswap, and storage-backed memory, combining architectural insight with hands-on kernel work.

You will mentor a small engineering team, review kernel changes, and balance latency, capacity, and reliability across platforms and devices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Linux kernel, Android kernel, embedded Linux, firmware, or platform architecture.
• Strong understanding of Linux memory management, swap, reclaim, page faults, and cgroups/memcg.
• Strong C programming and kernel debugging background.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for a tiered memory system using technologies such as zram, zswap, swap, cgroups, and storage‑backed memory.
• Lead design discussions around memory policy, app-priority behavior, read/write paths, storage placement, and prefetch strategies.
• Review kernel and Android platform changes for correctness, performance, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Help the team understand tradeoffs between latency, memory capacity, NAND endurance, CPU usage, and user experience.
• Work closely with kernel, Android platform, validation, and storage engineers.
• Provide technical leadership for a small, focused engineering team.

Skills

Linux memory management

C programming

Kernel debugging

Android platform behavior

Cross-layer debugging

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

zram

zswap

cgroups/memcg

Storage-backed memory

Real hardware testing

Job description

Lexar Enterprise is seeking a senior technical leader to define and drive the architecture of a new tiered memory system for Android and embedded Linux devices. You will oversee Linux memory management, zram/zswap, and storage-backed memory, combining architectural insight with hands-on kernel work.

You will mentor a small engineering team, review kernel changes, and balance latency, capacity, and reliability across platforms and devices.