The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for an experienced developer to join us as a Senior Software Engineer in our growing GPU/Accelerator team to build the GPU/Accelerator infrastructure that supports AI/ML and GPU compute frameworks. In this role, you will help to build, support, develop and maintain the GPU and accelerator related components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). You will also work across the organization to create the foundation for our layered products, such as Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Inference Server. The primary components include the Linux kernel (with Rust for Linux support), along with accelerator and graphics frameworks such as Vulkan.

What you will do

Build, support, develop and maintain the GPU/Accelerator infrastructure for AI/ML and graphics compute frameworks

Participate in and collaborate with the Linux kernel upstream communities (such as DRM and Rust for Linux), including working directly with hardware vendor engineers

Work closely with the other members of the team, external partners and with the upstream communities related to GPU and accelerator infrastructure and driver development

Optimize the GPU/Accelerator infrastructure to maximize the performance of the GPU stack

Support the DRM kernel subsystem in RHEL

Create and maintain upstream projects for GPU and Accelerators

Triage and fix kernel and userspace driver issues

Develop functional and regression test cases

Support internal AI products use of GPU and Accelerators

What you will bring

Strong expertise in C and Rust

Knowledge of the Git version control system

Familiarity with the Linux kernel in general

Familiarity with the DRM and Rust subsystems

Upstream development experience, including familiarity with upstream processes

Familiarity with GPU/Accelerator software stacks

Strong English written and verbal communication and organizational skills

The following are considered a plus

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; Master's degree or PhD is a plus

Experience in operating systems integration and tooling; RHEL experience is a plus

Familiarity with compute APIs such as CUDA, ROCm, etc.

About Red Hat

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