Senior Embedded Linux Engineer

Neros Technologies•Torrance, CA

About The Position

Neros 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.

Requirements

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 Haves

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

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