What you will be doingNeros builds first-person-view drones for the modern battlefield. As Senior Embedded Linux Engineer, you will own the embedded Linux platform underneath Neros products - the distribution, kernel, bootloader, and SDK that our flight, ground-station, and autonomy software teams build on. This is a platform-ownership role: your customers are other engineering teams, and your work is the foundation the whole product line stands on.
Responsibilities- Own our embedded Linux distribution and board support packages (Yocto/Buildroot) - from board bring-up on new compute platforms to safe, reliable field updates
- Own kernel configuration, device drivers, and the bootloader, including secure boot and update/recovery paths
- Design and maintain the common runtime and libraries other teams consume - logging, telemetry, IPC, configuration - and the cross-compile toolchain and SDK
- Bring up new compute platforms: from first power-on to a production-ready OS image
- Set Linux platform best practices and mentor engineers across teams that build on the platform
You should have the following- Deep embedded Linux experience - you have built and shipped products on custom Linux images (Yocto or Buildroot), owning the image rather than just using it
- Kernel-level competence: device drivers, device tree, and debugging kernel or boot failures on real hardware
- Bootloader experience (U-Boot or similar), including secure boot concepts and safe update/recovery design
- Strong C, comfortable on both sides of the kernel/user space boundary; scripting (Python/shell) for platform tooling
- Board bring-up experience - taking a new SoC/SoM from schematic review to a booting, stable OS
- Platform-as-product mindset: you have designed libraries, SDKs, or interfaces consumed by other teams - and kept them stable while the platform evolved underneath
Nice to have- Radio/comms integration on embedded Linux
- Real-time tuning - PREEMPT_RT, latency analysis
- OTA/update systems - Mender, RAUC, SWUpdate, OSTree, or homegrown equivalents
- Upstream contributions - kernel, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, U-Boot
- Rust for systems work
- You fly - FPV, RC, or drones generally
US Salary Range$165,000 - $231,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
