Linux System Programming Performance Engineer

Project description

The Physical AI, Robotics and Virtual Software Solutions (PAVS) team, are looking for a Linux System Programming Performance Engineer. S/He will be responsible for performance measurement, trace collection, and triage across bare‑metal and virtualized platforms, with a focus on hard real‑time behavior and system‑level performance derates.

Responsibilities

Own end‑to‑end performance measurements across Linux system software stacks

Collect traces, triage issues, and perform root‑cause analysis for performance deviations

Identify, quantify, and report system bottlenecks impacting PAVS KPIs

Generate trace‑backed evidence for performance sign‑off and regressions

Collect and analyze traces for: hard real‑time latency, interrupt latency, scheduler latency, wake‑up latency

Jitter and determinism characterization using kernel traces

Triage real‑time violations and correlate with kernel/driver paths

Skills

Must have

8-10 years of experience

Strong Linux system programming experience

Must have strong hands on programming in C, C++, or Python (any one)

Linux device driver development experience

Nice to have

Kernel, driver, or middleware performance exposure

Experience with real‑time Linux or hypervisors

PnP (Power and Performance) experience