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In this role, you develop embedded Linux solutions on ARM platforms, including integrating bootloaders and drivers, secure firmware upgrades, and defining the software architecture for radar sensors.
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Your role in the team
- Role OverviewAs our Senior Embedded Linux Engineer, you own the Linux platform on our radar sensor nodes: hardware bring-up on custom PCBs, production firmware, secure OTA updates, and long-term maintenance.
- You work with the hardware, radar signal processing, AI, and cloud engineers, and you set the embedded software architecture as the sensor platform scales.
- Key Responsibilities - Lead embedded Linux bring-up on custom ARM-based hardware platforms
- Develop and maintain Yocto-based Linux distributions and BSPs including bootloaders, kernel configuration, device trees, and peripheral drivers
- Design and implement secure device platforms, including secure boot, firmware signing, and robust OTA update mechanisms with rollback support
- Design of debugging, logging, and remote diagnostics infrastructure
- Work with the team to design reproducible build environments and CI/CD pipelines for embedded software development
- Define embedded software architecture and provide technical leadership, driving best practices and mentoring engineers as the team grows
Our expectations of you
Education
- 7+ Jahre praktische Erfahrung in Embedded Linux Entwicklung (ein Abschluss in Elektrotechnik, Computertechnik, Informatik oder einem verwandten Bereich ist willkommen, aber gleichwertige praktische Erfahrung zählt genauso viel)
Qualifications
- Starke Expertise im Yocto Project und in der Linux BSP-Entwicklung für ARM Cortex-A-basierte Systeme
- Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of Python, C++, or Rust
- Knowledge of embedded Linux security: secure boot, firmware signing, and system hardening
- Ability to debug hardware/software interactions using laboratory equipment
- Vertrautheit mit FreeRTOS, Zephyr oder ähnlichen RTOS
- Contributions to open-source projects (Linux Kernel, Yocto, U-Boot, RAUC, SWUpdate, Mender)
- German language skills are beneficial but not required
Experience
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and reproducible software builds
- Nice to Have- Experience with radar systems, RF engineering, DSP, or signal processing
- Experience with heterogeneous SoCs combining Linux and RTOS environments
- Experience mentoring engineers and growing technical teams
What we offer
- Expertise: Software Design
- Mandatory requirement: Embedded Linux operating system
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About your employer
Xneural GmbH, based in Dresden, is a deep-tech company focused on the development of radar and AI-based detection systems. They design distributed sensor systems for monitoring and analyzing small drones, integrating hardware, embedded software, cloud connectivity, and data-driven analysis.
- Startup
- Onsite
- Electronics, Automatization
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