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Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices

Location

San Francisco

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$230–342k

Gross per year

Experience

Not specified

Job summary

Responsibilities

You will collaborate closely with embedded, firmware, hardware, application, and product engineering teams. Experience with hardware bring-up is a plus, but not required.

  • Work on end-to-end OS capabilities spanning the OS kernel, userspace services, application frameworks, UI toolkits, and application-facing APIs.
  • Develop, integrate, and maintain OS components, both kernel-bound and in userspace, including scheduling, memory management, filesystems, drivers, IPC/RPC mechanisms, and…
  • Build and maintain core OS services and daemons (init, service management, device discovery, networking primitives, time, logging, update hooks, crash handling, and so on).
  • Design and implement security and privacy mechanisms:
  • Secure boot and measured boot integration points (where applicable).

What they're looking for

  • Strong experience with systems programming (such as with Linux, BSD, etc), including meaningful work in the kernel (drivers, core subsystems, or platform enablement) and…
  • Professional proficiency in C, C++ for low-level systems development.
  • Experience building or maintaining core OS services and platform software (system services, daemons, init/service management, device management, logging/telemetry pipelines).
  • Track record of debugging complex issues across kernel/userspace boundaries using tracing, profiling, and structured root cause analysis.
  • Familiarity with security fundamentals in OS design: isolation boundaries, privilege separation, secure IPC, attack surface reduction, and vulnerability mitigation practices.

Tech stack

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