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Sr. Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Antonio, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
17 October 2026 (13 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
14 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
TITLE: Sr. Embedded Linux Platform Engineer
Direct Hire
No Sponsorship
Will consider Remote for candidates not local to the San Antonio TX area
Our client is seeking a Sr. Embedded Linux Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of the low-level Linux platform supporting a new generation of secure purpose-built hardware products. This is a highly hands-on engineering position for someone who works comfortably at the intersection of embedded Linux custom hardware and production systems. The ideal candidate has personally helped take (and can explain/demonstrate their contribution) new embedded hardware from initial board bring-up through a stable secure production-ready platform. Youll work directly with hardware and software engineering teams and have significant ownership over the Linux platform BSPs hardware interfaces system performance and platform security.
Requirements:
Direct Hire
No Sponsorship
Will consider Remote for candidates not local to the San Antonio TX area
Our client is seeking a Sr. Embedded Linux Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of the low-level Linux platform supporting a new generation of secure purpose-built hardware products. This is a highly hands-on engineering position for someone who works comfortably at the intersection of embedded Linux custom hardware and production systems. The ideal candidate has personally helped take (and can explain/demonstrate their contribution) new embedded hardware from initial board bring-up through a stable secure production-ready platform. Youll work directly with hardware and software engineering teams and have significant ownership over the Linux platform BSPs hardware interfaces system performance and platform security.
Requirements:
- 5 years of professional Embedded Linux development experience.
- Strong C programming and debugging skills in embedded or hardware-adjacent environments.
- Hands-on experience with Buildroot and/or Yocto.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux kernel configuration device trees BSPs bootloaders such as U-Boot kernel modules and driver integration.
- Experience bringing new embedded hardware platforms or board revisions into Linux.
- Hands-on experience with several hardware interfaces such as I²C SPI UART GPIO PCIe USB DMA and interrupts.
- Ability to read schematics and datasheets and troubleshoot hardware using appropriate lab equipment.
- Experience with Linux networking Ethernet controllers/drivers and network performance.
- Experience delivering embedded platforms that progressed beyond prototype development into production or customer-facing products.
- Strong Git and software configuration-management practices.
- Configure and customize Linux kernels device trees bootloaders and root file systems for embedded hardware platforms.
- Develop and maintain Board Support Packages (BSPs) across new hardware and board revisions.
- Develop or adapt kernel drivers and user-space services when existing interfaces are insufficient.
- Use schematics datasheets oscilloscopes logic analyzers and related lab equipment to troubleshoot hardware/software integration issues.
- Support secure boot trusted boot processes and platform chain-of-trust architecture.
- Integrate technologies such as TPMs secure elements and hardware-backed security capabilities.
- Integrate and optimize high-speed Ethernet and PCIe-connected networking.
- Configure Ethernet controllers PHYs and associated Linux drivers.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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