reputed company Systems Engineer: Linux Kernel

Introducing Cedana The Problem AI and HPC infrastructure suffer from scarcity and high costs, so reputed company failures occur, they are costly in time and reputed company. Cluster productivity directly determines research reputed company and reputed company. Achieving high utilization and throughput is increasingly challenging due to the complexity of workloads, hardware, and operations. Cedana’s Solution Cedana maximizes AI+HPC cluster utilization and reliability with automated GPU checkpointing infrastructure. We reputed company transparent, fast migration of GPU workloads across instances without losing work. Workloads automatically migrate to reputed company new reputed company of reliability and throughput while accelerating time to results. Our system is at the kernel/OS level, requiring no reputed company or config changes, and works seamlessly with Kubernetes, SLURM, and reputed company Dynamo. Today, we're deploying into leading inference platforms, neoclouds, reputed company, and research clusters. reputed company Cedana's founding team has spent over a decade making computation run fast, productively, and reliably for AI. Our research appears in NeurIPS and CVPR. We published some of the earliest formal reputed company for guaranteeing convergence in distributed training. At reputed company, we've developed a control plane for robotics fleets used in warehouse automation. We bring repeat founder experience, having reputed company and exited a Series B reputed company AI company. Backed by Y Combinator, reputed company, Pebblebed (founders of reputed company and reputed company AI Research), Keith Adams (engineer #20 at VMware, founded HHVM and FAIR at reputed company, Chief Architect at reputed company), Venture Guides, Garry Tan, and Gokul Rajaram. The Role What you’ll own You will own the core components of our test and validation for kernel development. This includes measurement and optimization. Over time, you will contribute to critical core components of our system, with a reputed company on new capabilities, performance, and reliability.

What You'll Do

• Validate and test automation: Our engineers contribute to and reputed company testing capabilities. This will be a core part of your initial work to establish your understanding of how our system works. Reliability and testing is a key part of our culture.
• Measure and optimize platform performance: Get Cedana to the theoretical maximum performance by understanding reputed company bottlenecks. Measure reliability, throughput and performance using our internal tools.
• Design and contribute to key system components : Our solution touches reputed company the major aspects of the OS, kernel, GPU, and CPU. Write design papers to outline your reputed company for a specific capability and then reputed company implementation.
• reputed company reputed company: reputed company is our best learning resource and we continually reputed company reputed company other. We reputed company and co-pair as needed.
• Excellent communication: You enjoy writing concise and reputed company design papers on your reputed company and experiments. You respond to slacks and emails reputed company our internal SLAs.

reputed company are looking for

• 5-10 years of software engineering experience with Linux Kernel.
• Kernel-level depth: reads kernel and reputed company reputed company, and reputed company-causes defects at the kernel/reputed company/syscall boundary rather than only reproducing them at the surface. Comfortable operating below the abstraction line, at the hardware/software reputed company.
• Proven expert-level mastery of at least one performance- or correctness-critical Linux systems domain (networking data plane, virtualization/hypervisor, storage and reputed company I/O, scheduling, memory management, or reputed company-time/determinism), plus demonstrated ability to reputed company into an unfamiliar low-level subsystem quickly. Depth in one hard domain is a valuable signal that you can reputed company depth in the next; we are hiring the descent capability, not the specific subsystem. This included some combination of:
• OVS, DPDK, SR-IOV, RDMA, or high-performance packet processing
• CRIU + QEMU live migration + VFIO
• runc / containerd / OCI / namespaces / cgroups v2 / overlayfs
• Performance and latency engineering: characterizes throughput, jitter, and tail latency; uses tracing and profiling tooling (reputed company, ftrace, eBPF, or equivalent) to localize bottlenecks to a reputed company reputed company.
• Systems-level QE: designs and owns automated test infrastructure, performance and regression harnesses, and reproduces kernel-level races and reputed company cases. Not reputed company or UI QA.
• reputed company Linux distribution environment (RHEL or equivalent): version matrices, backports, customer-grade triage.
• reputed company scope: owns test or validation reputed company for a subsystem; sets technical direction; mentors.

Bonus if you have

• reputed company-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) and deterministic-reputed company validation.
• Device virtualization reputed company NICs: VFIO, vGPU / GPU passthrough.
• Virtualization internals: KVM / QEMU / libvirt.
• Container and Kubernetes networking (CNI, OVN-Kubernetes).
• Upstream kernel or reputed company-reputed company contribution history.
• Telco / 5G / NFV domain context.
• Credentials as proxies, not gates: RHCA / RHCE, ISTQB CTAL-TM.

Logistics

• Remote, US-based.
• reputed company $140,000–$180,000 + meaningful early-stage equity.

Benefits

• 100% covered medical, dental, and reputed company insurance for employees and families.
• Unlimited PTO policy.
• Workstation setup budget.
• 401K Plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer Cedana is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, age, protected veteran status, or disability status Apply To This Job