I’m about to graduate college. Since the middle of high school to now: I’ve worked on lots of C and Rust, reverse engineering GPU drivers and hardware for phones (and toying with Linux drivers), low-latency video streaming, am writing my own OS (but need to apply to stuff before that’s fleshed out), and have read quite a lot of research papers in networking. I know what a TCAM is, I know what flows are, I know that NICs DMA packets to ringbuffers in host memory, and I know that things like DDIO exist.
I really want to work on stuff with network stacks in the OS. I have a lot of connections in other parts of CS, but I have zero clue how to get a job in OS + networks. Unlike other parts of software engineering, where I at least see positions for new grads from time to time, all these OS + networks jobs seem much more senior. This is, if I can even find a position that exists related to these topics in the first place.
I really don’t want to do anything else, I’ve tried a lot of CS and I love this the most. But I have no idea how to get there, barring a master’s/PhD, which I’d probably do if there were no other route to getting to a job here. Any advice?
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