Senior Kernel Engineer - Rust & Fuchsia Core

Google; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off 20 days

Sick time 40 hours/year (69 Seattle)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google's Zircon kernel team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement core OS components for Fuchsia, focusing on low-level memory management, thread scheduling, and IPC. This role involves migrating subsystems from C++ to Rust, ensuring memory safety while supporting Google's broad device ecosystem.

You will collaborate across compiler, tools, and security teams, tackle difficult bare-metal challenges, and contribute to robust diagnostic frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with systems programming, operating systems or general embedded development.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize core kernel infrastructure, including virtual memory page tables, thread schedulers, timers, and object architectures.
• Develop and maintain sound multi-language FFI boundaries to safely bridge legacy C++ subsystems with modern Rust components while managing strict stack and memory constraints.
• Implement advanced low-level diagnostic frameworks and execute comprehensive test categories—including early boot, core, and stress testing to isolate non-deterministic system behaviors.
• Collaborate across compiler, tools, and security infrastructure teams to audit code generation, refine code coverage, and systematically document memory invariants and lock hierarchies.

Skills

Systems programming

OS/Embedded development

Software design & architecture

Testing & QA

Rust programming

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree

PhD in CS or related field

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

Google's Zircon kernel team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement core OS components for Fuchsia, focusing on low-level memory management, thread scheduling, and IPC. This role involves migrating subsystems from C++ to Rust, ensuring memory safety while supporting Google's broad device ecosystem.

You will collaborate across compiler, tools, and security teams, tackle difficult bare-metal challenges, and contribute to robust diagnostic frameworks.