HPE
Principal Linux Driver Engineer
$157K–$361K
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America +4 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America
Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America
San Jose, California, United States of America
Spring, Texas, United States of America
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States of America - Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
About the job
Leads development and deployment of Linux kernel drivers and low-level networking software for HPE Slingshot systems used in high-performance computing and AI clusters.
What you'll do
- Architect, develop, and optimize Linux drivers and networking software, including performance, reliability, diagnostics, and telemetry capabilities.
- Lead product development from architecture and pre-silicon work through bring-up, validation, integration, and production deployment.
- Provide technical leadership and collaborate with ASIC, hardware, firmware, validation, and system software teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Expert-level proficiency in C and low-level systems software development.
- Extensive production Linux kernel driver experience, including high-performance network drivers or Linux kernel networking subsystems.
- Expertise in Linux kernel internals, networking protocols and technologies, Layer 1/2 networking, hardware/software debugging, and silicon bring-up and validation.
Nice to have
- Experience with HPC interconnects, supercomputing, or large-scale AI infrastructure; Slingshot, InfiniBand, RoCE, or RDMA.
- Experience with network adapters, SmartNICs, DPUs, switch platforms, fabric architectures, telemetry, or Linux kernel upstream contributions.
Pay
USD 165,000 - 313,500 (Colorado; annual base salary); USD 178,000 - 361,000 (California; annual base salary); USD 157,000 - 361,000 (Texas & Wisconsin; annual base salary)
Tools
Linux kernel, C, Ethernet, TCP/IP, RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, Slingshot
AI focus
Develops and optimizes networking software for next-generation AI systems and large-scale AI clusters.
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