About The Job

Red Hat's Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a senior software engineer to join us in Red Hat’s Verticals partner enablement group. In this role you will be part of a growing team focused on partner enablement for use in telco, edge, real-time, and industrial applications, providing hardware enablement for ARM platforms. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What You Will Do

• Contribute new hardware enablement development work to Linux kernel and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Backport patches and bugfixes from the upstream kernel into Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Participate in the broader upstream Linux community
• Package the kernel for delivery
• Collaborate in the ARM partner ecosystem
• Develop and run performance benchmark suites
• Collaborate with the Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product Management, Documentation, and product build teams, as well as the open source community
• Have fun!

What You Will Bring

• Experience in Linux kernel development, ARM architecture and board bring-up
• Familiarity with embedded systems and their ecosystems
• Familiarity with Device Tree and Advanced Configuration & Power Interface (ACPI)
• Knowledge of Git and upstream Linux kernel patch posting procedures, or experience with upstream development
• Experience with backporting upstream code to Linux distributions, kernel configuration, building, and testing
• Ability to work on your own in a small team environment
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks

Nice to have

• Familiarity in early boot in flow of ARM processors
• Knowledge of grub
• Knowledge of U-boot or UEFI
• Experience working with chip manufacturers or tier 1 suppliers