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Staff Embedded Linux Software Engineer in USA new

  • SirenOpt
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Leandro, CA

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.

Salary: $180k - $240k/yr

SirenOpt

SirenOpt helps manufacturers make better, safer, and more reliable micro- and nano-materials. These materials are the building blocks of critical sectors of the global economy such as batteries, computer chips, aircraft components, and power systems. Surging material demand and growing complexity...

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