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# Linux Kernel Architect

- **Company:** Sifive Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Software Debugging, Linux, Microprocessors, Emulators, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Mailing List, Reduced Instruction Set Computing
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/linux-kernel-architect/10344767

## About the Role

* Experience working on concurrency-sensitive code in the upstream Linux kernel, with a track record writing and reviewing patches on the public mailing lists
 * Experience debugging challenging software and hardware bugs in CPUs and SoCs
 * Experience working with CPU architects and RTL engineers
 * Experience developing and debugging Linux on FPGA and emulation platforms
 * Experience with hypervisors and virtualization
 * Familiarity with the RISC-V architecture

Ways to stand out

 * Familiarity with silicon design issues and challenges
 * Familiarity with microarchitectural side-channel attacks and mitigations
 * Familiarity with debugging systems via hardware debuggers
 * Familiarity with Devicetree, ACPI and UEFI
 * Familiarity with Rust

## Description

Do you want to be part of the RISC-V revolution? RISC-V and SiFive are redefining computing platforms for the 21st century. SiFive, the world RISC-V leader, is seeking an experienced Linux kernel software architect. In this role, you'll be improving and debugging the RISC-V Linux kernel, with particular focus on high core count server systems. You'll interact directly with the upstream Linux and OpenSBI communities, posting and reviewing patches. You'll debug challenging problems, working with our system software and system validation teams, on SiFive designs running in emulation. And you'll work with hardware architects and engineers, both inside SiFive and at RISC-V International, to improve our core and system designs.


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