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Systems Engineer, Hypervisor and Kernel

WI
Workers IOYC F26
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceRemote
SenioritySenior
SponsorshipNo visa sponsorship
Salary$80,000–$250,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Posted9/10/2026
Engineering

What we are looking for

  • Deep experience with hypervisors, virtual machine monitors, or emulators
  • Real work inside the Linux kernel: schedulers, timers, interrupts, drivers, or memory management
  • Comfort in C and Rust, and comfort reading code you did not write
  • A habit of measuring before guessing, and of writing down what you learned

Nice to have

  • Contributions to Linux Kernel, KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, or similar
  • Experience with record and replay, deterministic execution, or simulation testing
  • Time spent running production systems on bare metal

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Simulation environments for verifying mission-critical software

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