Embedded Linux Engineer

Job Description

As a Embedded Linux Engineer, you’ll will work for one of our Clients and be a part of the R&D team developing a custom, easy-and-ready-to-use Linux-based operating system supported on client specific hardware and 3rd party hardware.

The industrial IoT platform simplifies modern iterative development, maintenance, and operation of distributed edge devices. It is a scalable full-stack DevOps-oriented solution, seamlessly integrating device hardware & software (including a Linux OS), development tools, cloud-based remote updates & fleet management, for high reliability and security applications.

Your focus will be on maintaining our open source Ope Embedded/Yocto layers, as well as keeping close contact with the R&D team responsible for maintaining Toradex BSP. You will help maintaining and expanding our automated build and tests to guarantee the high level of quality of Toradex software.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Maintain and add support Torizon OS for different SoC platforms (NXP, TI and more to come) Keep close contact with other teams inside R&D to guarantee Toradex’s full stack approach Maintain and expand automated build and test cases for Torizon OS Continuously improve DevOps best practices A general role is possible, however, depending on specialization other responsibilities may be discussed. These include: BSP: With expertise in Embedded Linux: Bootloader and Linux Kernel making sure Linux BSPs and related software offerings for our SoMs (System on Modules) are constantly developed, maintained, and quality improved - from initial bring-up, to driver and kernel development, up to build-system, tooling and distro level development. Develop and maintain Embedded Linux BSPs for embedded computer modules  Device driver development: optimizations, bug fixing, add new functionality  Eco-system: porting of third party software libraries, develop Software tools and utilities from scratch, Boot loader firmware Debian and Container Development: With expertise in Debian: Focus on Debian Packages and Containers for the OS, responsible for maintaining the Debian-based Docker images - specialized to leverage the graphics stack and hardware acceleration - and the Debian packages for embedded SoCs vendor-specific features like GPU, NPU, VPU, and the upstream community packages. Write and update Debian packages for downstream SoC vendor packages. Contribute to upstream Debian packages related to features supported by Torizon. Create and maintain existing Debian-based Docker container images for Torizon. Maintain and improve the packages and containers' automated build and test infrastructure

Desired Candidate Profile:

Mandatory: Experience OpenEmbedded/Yocto and its best practices Experience in Embedded Linux and Embedded Systems Advanced Linux knowledge Intermediate Docker knowledge Proactive and communicate Nice to have: Contributions to FOSS projects Contributions to Debian Willing to learn: How to debug OS/embedded system/software in various languages Best practices on build automation and test setup (CI/CD, DevOps) Writing automated tests

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