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Member of Technical Staff, Linux Kernel

Remote (4h overlap with Pacific or IST; Seattle or Bengaluru on-site preferred)Full-time
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Deepen kernel-level diagnosis and remediation. This is the foundational, cross-substrate seat: the platform's fixes are only as good as its kernel reasoning.

This seat opens later. We're listing it now so the right person can introduce themselves early.

logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack. We build agentic systems for Linux and Android devices: we ingest the diagnostic artifacts a device emits (bugreports, logcat, dmesg, modem traces, ramdumps, perfetto, pcap, CAN) and help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack, grounded in their own BSP. Think Datadog and Cursor combined for the OS layer. A VC-backed startup with a small, senior team. You work directly with the founders.

The bar

A quick, honest gut-check before you spend time on an application. If most of this sounds like you, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it's not you yet, no hard feelings, and please keep an eye on our other roles as they open.

  • 0110+ years of relevant engineering experience.
  • 02Deep Linux kernel internals.
  • 03Crash and ramdump forensics, live and post-mortem.
  • 04Kernel tracing and profiling: ftrace, perf, eBPF.
  • 05Driver and BSP experience.
  • 06Strong C.
  • 07Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.
§ 01 — What you'll do
  • Build ramdump and crash forensics: drgn, vmcoreinfo, ramdump parsing, post-mortem analysis under customer deadlines.
  • Reason across scheduler, memory management, and driver internals.
  • Ground remediations in kernel source.
§ 02 — Bonus
  • Android kernel.
  • ARM64 internals.
  • Embedded / hardware bringup.
  • drgn and crash tooling.
  • Upstream contributions (patches accepted on LKML).
  • Yocto distro bring-up.
§ 03 — Compensation and benefits
  • Top-of-market salary and founding equity.
  • Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.

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