Staff Embedded Linux Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded Linux userspace applications in C using POSIX APIs.
• Develop userspace and kernel-space drivers for sensors, actuators, and instruments.
• Implement application-level command, control, and data protocols over TCP/IP and communication drivers over serial and CAN interfaces.
• Design, build, and maintain hardware-in-the-loop automated test systems and host-side Python test tooling.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and reproducible build infrastructure.
• Participate in hardware bring-up, board-level validation, and lab bench debugging.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, technical documentation, and design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• C experience for embedded Linux userspace development, including threading, IPC, and POSIX APIs.
• Python experience for test automation and scripted instrumentation, including pytest or an equivalent framework.
• Linux TCP/IP socket programming, including non-blocking I/O, connection lifecycle, and streaming.
• Experience with UDP, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS-232, and RS-485 protocols.
• Experience implementing byte-level protocols involving framing, CRC, state machines, and multi-device arbitration.
• Hardware bring-up and board-level debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
• Experience with producer-consumer and ring-buffer patterns, plus hardware-in-the-loop test development and execution.
• Preferred experience with Linux DMA, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker, Yocto, PetaLinux, C unit-test frameworks, FPGA register interfaces, Wireshark, Tkinter, PyQt, and scientific or process-control instrumentation.

Benefits

• Equity and salary compensation are provided, with compensation dependent on experience.
• Health, dental, and vision plans are provided.
• 401(k) matching is provided.
• 20 days of paid time off per year plus approximately 15 paid US holidays per year.
• Full-time, on-site role in San Leandro, California.