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You will lead architecture and development across Linux kernel, boot loader, and user-space middleware, building secure, reliable, and performant platforms that power our next-generation [products/platforms]. You’ll set technical direction, elevate engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact outcomes.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and implement security features in boot loader complementing secure boot, measured boot, and chain of trust.\n Design and implement security features in Linux kernel features (e.g., device drivers, filesystems, networking stack, security modules).\n Build and optimize user-space middleware (e.g., IPC frameworks, OpenSSL, DPDK) leveraging Userspace drivers.\n Implement and integrate security protocols (e.g., TLS 1.3, DTLS, IPsec, SSH,) and hardware-backed key management.\n Drive threat modeling, secure design reviews, and code audits, ensuring compliance with best practices (e.g., ASLR, stack canaries, SELinux/AppArmor policies).\n Lead performance and reliability engineering including profiling, tracing (ftrace, eBPF, perf), memory safety, and resource efficiency.\n Define platform CI/CD for low-level software (artifact signing, SBOMs, reproducible builds, Yocto/Buildroot/DEB/RPM pipelines).\nMentor and grow engineers, guide technical roadmaps, and make pragmatic build/buy/OSS leverage decisions.\nCollaborate with Design team, IP team, DevOps, product, and QA to meet functional, performance, and certification goals.\nQualifications (Required)\n10+ years of professional experience in systems/embedded/platform engineering, including technical leadership at team or org scale.\nExpert in C/C++ for systems-level development; 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