Senior Linux Kernel Driver Engineer for AI Accelerators

Acceler8 Talent; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA is seeking a System Software Engineer to advance the Linux driver stack for flagship accelerator hardware. You will work on the kernel, drivers, and low-level userspace components, shaping bring-up, telemetry, and platform integration from silicon through production.

The role demands deep C experience, strong kernel and PCIe knowledge, and comfort debugging across RTL, firmware, and software boundaries in an early-stage AI hardware environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in low-level systems software, kernel development, firmware, or closely related work.
• Strong hands-on experience developing Linux kernel device drivers.
• Excellent C programming skills; experience with Rust is a plus.
• Ability to work directly from hardware documentation, register maps, and device specifications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Linux kernel drivers for PCIe-connected accelerator hardware.
• Own DMA, memory management, interrupts, MMIO, command submission, and device initialization.
• Build low-level userspace libraries and interfaces using ioctl, sysfs, mmap, and direct device access.
• Develop prototype drivers, debug utilities, and bring-up tools for new hardware features.
• Validate software against simulation, emulation, and FPGA-based pre-silicon platforms.
• Work with hardware and firmware engineers during first-silicon bring-up.
• Debug complex issues spanning RTL, firmware, kernel, PCIe, and userspace.
• Profile and optimize PCIe throughput, DMA performance, interrupt latency, and host-side overhead.
• Build regression and validation infrastructure for driver and systems-software components.
• Expose device health, telemetry, and error information to higher-level platform-management software.
• Provide software input into future chip and system architecture decisions.
• Contribute across adjacent host-software components as the platform evolves.

Skills

Linux kernel drivers

C programming

Rust

Kernel space and userspace

PCIe

DMA

MMIO

IOMMU

Hardware bring-up

Performance profiling

Job description

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA is seeking a System Software Engineer to advance the Linux driver stack for flagship accelerator hardware. You will work on the kernel, drivers, and low-level userspace components, shaping bring-up, telemetry, and platform integration from silicon through production.

The role demands deep C experience, strong kernel and PCIe knowledge, and comfort debugging across RTL, firmware, and software boundaries in an early-stage AI hardware environment.