# Systems Engineer, Hypervisor and Kernel at Workers IO

- Company: Workers IO (YC F26)
- What the company does: Simulation Environments for Verifying Mission Critical Software. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://workers.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $80K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/workers-io/jobs/UV8iE3b-systems-engineer-hypervisor-and-kernel
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workers-io-systems-engineer-hypervisor-and-kernel/

## What they're looking for

- Deep experience with hypervisors, virtual machine monitors, or emulators
- Real work inside the Linux kernel: schedulers, timers, interrupts, drivers, or memory management
- Comfort in C and Rust, and comfort reading code you did not write
- A habit of measuring before guessing, and of writing down what you learned

Tags: Engineering