About the role

  • OS Kernel Engineer optimizing Windows OS and enabling new technologies for Intel's hardware. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure high performance and reliability across client and server environments.

Responsibilities

  • Enable and optimize new platform capabilities in Windows across client and server systems, from pre silicon through production
  • Drive performance analysis and optimization across OS, drivers, runtimes, and system services
  • Set technical direction and architecture for OS level enablement of new silicon features
  • Influence platform and product decisions across organizations, working effectively with silicon architects, firmware teams, compiler/runtime teams, and Microsoft partners
  • Analyze and resolve complex system level performance issues spanning CPU, memory, IO, power, and scheduling
  • Support new silicon bring up, OS power on, and early platform readiness
  • Work with internal and external partners to validate performance using benchmarks, workloads, and real world use cases
  • Contribute to long term platform strategy by identifying performance headwinds and opportunities across evolving workloads (AI, cloud, virtualization, gaming, productivity, security)
  • Mentor junior engineers, scaling impact through technical leadership, design reviews, and coaching
  • Raise the overall technical bar of the organization by establishing standards, sharing deep expertise, and modeling strong engineering judgment

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C/C++, C#, Rust
  • Experience with graphics stack (ex. Windows OS kernel)
  • Experience with object oriented programming, data structures or algorithms
  • Experience with computer architecture or operating systems
  • Preferred: Master's or PhD in relevant fields

Benefits

  • health, retirement, and vacation benefits

Job title

OS Kernel Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$149,600 - $284,580 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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