Senior Linux Kernel Driver Engineer
FractileAI Hardware company
Bristol, United KingdomSenior
Accel
Founders Fund
Factorial Funds
Conviction
Gigascale Capital
O1A Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Optimize performance and reliability of AI accelerator's Linux kernel driver.
- •Design and maintain the Linux kernel driver for Fractile's AI accelerator, working at the boundary between host and silicon to optimise performance and reliability.
- •Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain kernel-space paths: PCIe device management, DMA, memory and interrupt handling.
- •Define and evolve stable, debuggable userspace interfaces for runtimes.
- •Collaborate with hardware, firmware, runtime and ML engineers in HW/SW co-design.
- •Participate in pre-silicon simulation, bring-up, and performance tuning.
- •Improve tooling and workflows to accelerate development safely.
- •Requirements Shipped and maintained Linux kernel device drivers in production (PCIe-attached devices ideal).
- •Strong systems, concurrency and performance instincts.
- •Excellent C and/or Rust for building maintainable kernel code.
- •Degree in a related field and 3+ years of industry experience.
Required skills
LinuxCRust
Tech stack
LinuxCRust