System Performance Architect

System Performance Architect

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced System Performance Architect to lead the design and optimisation of next-generation operating system performance across hardware, software and chipset layers.

The role focuses on system scheduling, kernel-level optimisation, application performance and hardware-software co-design. You will be responsible for developing architecture and optimisation strategies that balance performance, power efficiency and thermal constraints, and for driving these solutions through to deployment on end devices.

A key part of the role is translating advanced systems research and emerging industry developments into practical technical roadmaps and measurable product improvements.

Key Responsibilities

System Scheduling and Hardware-Software Co-Optimisation

• Design and develop integrated scheduling mechanisms across CPU, GPU, memory and system resources.
• Optimise areas such as priority management, task grouping, core selection and frequency scaling.
• Develop kernel and hardware co-optimisation mechanisms to improve overall system efficiency.
• Design scheduling strategies that balance performance, power consumption and thermal constraints.
• Drive solutions from architecture and prototyping through to implementation on end devices.

Operating System Performance Optimisation

• Analyse and optimise application performance at the operating system level.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in core system modules.
• Improve application responsiveness, interaction latency, animation smoothness and overall user experience.
• Design and optimise high-performance operating system components and runtime mechanisms.

High-Performance Application Frameworks

• Research high-performance APIs, runtime technologies and application development paradigms used in modern operating systems.
• Design frameworks and system capabilities that enable developers to build high-performance applications more efficiently.
• Explore runtime optimisation and performance-oriented application architecture.
• Improve the interaction between application frameworks and underlying system resources.

Technology Strategy and Roadmapping

• Track developments in operating systems, system scheduling, hardware-aware optimisation and related academic research.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their relevance to future system architecture.
• Translate research and industry developments into technical roadmaps and platform evolution strategies.
• Identify opportunities for architectural improvements across hardware, kernel, runtime and application layers.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience in one or more of the following:
  • Operating system performance optimisation
  • System scheduling
  • Kernel development
  • Hardware-software co-design
  • System architecture
• Practical experience with technologies such as:
  • CPU/GPU scheduling
  • Memory and bandwidth management
  • Priority management
  • Task grouping
  • Core selection
  • Dynamic frequency scaling
• Strong understanding of performance, power and thermal-aware system design.
• Deep understanding of operating system-level application performance and performance debugging.
• Ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks in complex system software.
• Familiarity with high-performance APIs, runtimes, application frameworks and performance-oriented software design.
• Strong engineering execution skills, with the ability to take technical solutions from initial design through implementation and deployment.
• Ability to demonstrate measurable improvements in system and application performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with research, engineering, product and international teams.
• Based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing or optimising operating system kernels, schedulers or runtime systems.
• Strong knowledge of heterogeneous compute architectures.
• Experience with mobile, embedded or other resource-constrained operating systems.
• Familiarity with performance profiling, tracing, benchmarking and system-level debugging tools.
• Experience translating academic research into practical system architecture or production solutions.
• Strong understanding of interactions between application workloads, operating systems and underlying hardware.