Linux Kernel Engineer

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing transportation - making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem including Toyota, Volvo, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, FedEx, and U.S. Xpress. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Texas and has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Detroit, MI. To learn more, visit www.aurora.tech.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We're searching for experienced engineers to customize and extend the internals of the Linux kernel for use in our autonomous vehicles. This work extends beyond device drivers and into "linux/kernel." Persons will work very closely with our middleware and application software developers to develop a kernel that meets the needs of our user-space software.

In this role, you will

• Tune, tweak, and extend "linux/kernel" to meet the needs of our user-space software
• Investigate and understand the needs of user-space software and propose well-reasoned kernel changes to meet them
• Help maintain the Linux kernel deployed to vehicles in our fleet
• Liaise with the Linux kernel developer community to advocate for kernel changes beneficial to Aurora use-cases
• Submit patches upstream
• Develop the occasional device driver

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of the Linux kernel, particularly in the area of kernel internals, such as the scheduler, synchronization mechanisms, and memory management
• Strong software design skills, especially concerning designs that span kernel- and user-space boundaries
• An understanding of the needs of latency-sensitive and real-time applications
• Strong C programming skills
• A kernel enthusiast who keeps abreast of the latest kernel developments (an avid mailing list or Linux-related news reader or conference attendee)

Desirable Qualifications

• Notable kernel contributions that you can share
• Experience with PREEMPT_RT
• Experience with ftrace, perf, etc.
• Experience with embedded Linux and real-time systems