Senior Software Engineer - Rust for Linux

Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong Rust and C programming skills. Some familiarity with C++ would be a plus
• Minimum of 10+ years of related development experience
• Experience working with large codebases, preferably the upstream Linux kernel
• Background with kernel device model, driver core, and OS interfaces for memory management, IRQ handling, and synchronization
• Experience writing and debugging kernel code in multi-threaded, interrupt, and DMA contexts
• Strong written communication, comfortable working entirely in public on open-source mailing threads such as rust-for-linux, dri-devel, nouveau, linux-pci, driver-core, and nova-gpu

What you'll be doing:

• Architect and implement features in nova-core (the chipset-agnostic core driver) and nova-drm (the DRM front-end), targeting existing and upcoming NVIDIA GPU generations from Turing through Blackwell
• Help build the technical direction of Project Nova and the DRM Rust backend shared by other in-tree Rust GPU drivers, including patch review, development dialogues, and coordinating releases on the kernel mailing lists
• Maintain and extend Rust kernel infrastructure spanning PCI, DMA mapping, device I/O and IRQ, driver core, resource management, support bus, firmware loading components, and the Rust allocator shim
• Drive cross-subsystem cleanups that the kernel needs in order to grow safe Rust support, for example generalizing core driver-model infrastructure across multiple buses such as PCI, platform, and SPI
• Collaborate with the Rust for Linux community, DRM subsystem maintainers, and Nova reviewers on patch review, design discussions, and release management on lore.kernel.org and dri-devel

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Existing upstream maintainer-ship in the Linux kernel, especially in the use of Rust within the Linux environment, DRM, or driver core
• Track record of contributions to drivers/gpu/nova-core/, drivers/gpu/drm/nova/, or rust/kernel/
• Familiarity with DRM Rust infrastructure such as GPUVM, DRM GPU scheduler, GEM, and DRM device abstractions
• Experience with PCI device bring-up, or other GPU bring-up work on real hardware
• History of representing a project in public technical forums such as LPC, Kangrejos, FOSDEM, or dri-devel hackfests