System Performance Architect - OS/Kernel Performance

System Performance Architect – OS / Kernel Performance

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Industry: ICT

Seniority: Senior / Expert

Focus: OS Performance · Kernel · CPU/GPU · System Scheduling · Hardware-Software Optimization

About the Role

A leading international company in the ICT and Telecommunications industry is looking for an experienced System Performance Architect to work on advanced operating system performance and hardware-software optimization.

You will focus on improving system speed, responsiveness, power efficiency and thermal performance , working at the intersection of operating systems, kernel technologies and device hardware .

This is a highly technical role for someone with strong experience in OS-level performance optimization, system scheduling and hardware-software co-optimization .

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced hardware-software-chip co-optimization and integrated scheduling solutions.
• Optimize CPU, GPU and DDR/memory scheduling , including priority management, task grouping and core selection.
• Design and improve frequency scaling mechanisms and kernel/hardware co-optimization strategies.
• Optimize system scheduling while balancing performance, power consumption and thermal constraints .
• Drive technical solutions from architecture and design through to implementation on end devices .
• Analyze and optimize application performance at OS level , identifying and resolving critical performance bottlenecks.
• Improve application responsiveness, interaction efficiency and animation smoothness .
• Design and optimize high-performance core system modules .
• Research high-performance APIs, application development paradigms and runtime optimization techniques.
• Contribute to the development of high-performance application frameworks .
• Track emerging industry technologies and academic research and translate relevant developments into future technical roadmaps .

What We’re Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience in operating system performance optimization, system scheduling, kernel development and/or hardware-software-chip co-optimization .
• Experience with areas such as:
• CPU/GPU/DDR scheduling
• Task scheduling
• Priority management
• Core selection
• Frequency scaling / DVFS
• Power optimization
• Thermal-aware scheduling
• Deep understanding of OS-level application performance and performance bottleneck analysis.
• Experience optimizing critical system modules and improving overall application responsiveness and user experience.
• Knowledge of high-performance APIs, runtime optimization and performance-oriented framework design .
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to turn complex technical designs into measurable performance improvements.
• Ability to follow emerging technologies and research and translate them into practical technical solutions and roadmaps.
• Strong English communication skills and ability to collaborate with international research, engineering and product teams.

Location

The position is based in Amsterdam .

Candidates should either be currently based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate to Amsterdam .

Ideal Background

Profiles coming from System Performance Engineering, OS Performance Engineering, Kernel Performance Engineering, System Software Engineering or SoC Performance Engineering environments would be particularly relevant.