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# System Performance Architect

- **Company:** Eu Recruit
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Layers, Application Performance Management, Profiling, Software Debugging, Systems Architecture
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eu-recruit.com/jobs/system-performance-architect/#vacancy-apply

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience in one or more of the following:
 + Operating system performance optimisation
 + System scheduling
 + Kernel development
 + Hardware-software co-design
 + System architecture
 * Practical experience with technologies such as:
 + CPU/GPU scheduling
 + Memory and bandwidth management
 + Priority management
 + Task grouping
 + Core selection
 + Dynamic frequency scaling
 * Strong understanding of performance, power and thermal-aware system design.
 * Deep understanding of operating system-level application performance and performance debugging.
 * Ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks in complex system software.
 * Familiarity with high-performance APIs, runtimes, application frameworks and performance-oriented software design.
 * Strong engineering execution skills, with the ability to take technical solutions from initial design through implementation and deployment.
 * Ability to demonstrate measurable improvements in system and application performance.
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
 * Ability to collaborate effectively with research, engineering, product and international teams.
 * Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.

Preferred Experience

 * Experience developing or optimising operating system kernels, schedulers or runtime systems.
 * Strong knowledge of heterogeneous compute architectures.
 * Experience with mobile, embedded or other resource-constrained operating systems.
 * Familiarity with performance profiling, tracing, benchmarking and system-level debugging tools.
 * Experience translating academic research into practical system architecture or production solutions.
 * Strong understanding of interactions between application workloads, operating systems and underlying hardware.

## Description

System Scheduling and Hardware-Software Co-Optimisation

 * Design and develop integrated scheduling mechanisms across CPU, GPU, memory and system resources.
 * Optimise areas such as priority management, task grouping, core selection and frequency scaling.
 * Develop kernel and hardware co-optimisation mechanisms to improve overall system efficiency.
 * Design scheduling strategies that balance performance, power consumption and thermal constraints.
 * Drive solutions from architecture and prototyping through to implementation on end devices.

Operating System Performance Optimisation

 * Analyse and optimise application performance at the operating system level.
 * Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in core system modules.
 * Improve application responsiveness, interaction latency, animation smoothness and overall user experience.
 * Design and optimise high-performance operating system components and runtime mechanisms.

High-Performance Application Frameworks

 * Research high-performance APIs, runtime technologies and application development paradigms used in modern operating systems.
 * Design frameworks and system capabilities that enable developers to build high-performance applications more efficiently.
 * Explore runtime optimisation and performance-oriented application architecture.
 * Improve the interaction between application frameworks and underlying system resources.

Technology Strategy and Roadmapping

 * Track developments in operating systems, system scheduling, hardware-aware optimisation and related academic research.
 * Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their relevance to future system architecture.
 * Translate research and industry developments into technical roadmaps and platform evolution strategies.
 * Identify opportunities for architectural improvements across hardware, kernel, runtime and application layers.


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