Lead Embedded Linux Engineer

1 month ago


Falls Church, United States Bernard Nickels & Associates Full time

As a Lead Embedded Linux Engineer, you will own the design and development of a custom Linux distribution built with Yocto. You will work with a number of internal stakeholders to: derive requirements, plan and execute the development of the distribution, test the distribution on prototypes in a lab environment, deploy over-the-air updates, and eventually grow a team dedicated to this work.


Core Responsibilities:

  • Leading the development of client’s custom Linux distribution
  • Creating Board Support Packages for existing and new hardware
  • Creating and maintaining layers and recipes
  • Supporting multiple CPU architectures (ARM, x86, etc.)
  • Porting the distribution to new platforms
  • Creating tooling to support satellite and telecommunications software engineers
  • Designing and implementing mechanisms to support OTA updates on production satellites
  • Be the Linux expert (kernel, CPU-architecture, general device-drivers, etc.) on the engineering team
  • Working in a small, agile team to manage the software development lifecycle (requirements definition, design, implementation, test, and verification)


Required Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Software, Electrical, Aerospace, or in a related engineering field
  • 7+ years of experience building and shipping embedded Linux distributions
  • Expert knowledge of C/C++, Git, and Yocto/OpenEmbedded
  • Expert knowledge of embedded Linux configuration, development, board support packages, bootloaders, kernel, and drivers
  • Experience with root cause analysis, and advanced troubleshooting at the kernel-level
  • Experience working with common protocols such as RS-232, SPI, I2C, and CAN
  • Experience with hardware-in-the-loop integration and testing
  • Demonstrated experience with all phases of the software development life cycle
  • Great communication skills and experience working with cross-disciplinary teams


Ways to stand out:

  • Experience with PREEMPT_RT
  • Experience developing and testing software for SmallSats / CubeSats
  • Experience using CI/CD to produce release artifacts
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience creating container images from Yocto artifacts


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