Senior Linux Kernel Driver Engineer
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What you’ll do
Design, develop, and maintain the Linux kernel driver for Fractile’s AI accelerator
Build the performance-critical kernel-space paths that keep the host stack moving: PCIe device management, DMA, memory handling, interrupt handling, and robust recovery paths
Define and evolve the userspace interface the runtime depends on, with a focus on stability, debuggability, and performance
Work in a tight co-design loop with hardware, firmware, runtime and ML engineers: validate assumptions, iterate on behaviour, and close gaps early
Improve tooling/workflows so we move fast without breaking things
What we’re looking for
You’ve shipped and maintained Linux kernel device drivers in production. Experience with PCIe-attached devices and custom hardware interfaces is ideal.
Strong systems and performance instincts. You can reason about computer architecture, concurrency, and where the time goes
Excellent C and/or Rust, and a pragmatic approach to building high-quality, maintainable & secure kernel code
You enjoy hard kernel and system-level problems, and you take them end-to-end until the measurements move
Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Maths, Physics, or related degree and 3+ years of industry experience
Nice to have
GPUs / ML accelerators / high‑throughput I/O (NICs, RDMA, storage)
Hardware bring‑up or pre‑silicon simulation experience
Performance work: profiling, tracing, benchmarking, regression tracking
If you want to build the software where every driver win unlocks huge system performance, come build it together.
About Fractile
UK private semiconductor startup building AI inference chips and systems for companies running frontier models.
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