This role offers deep technical challenges and the opportunity to influence the architecture of a core embedded platform deployed in mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

Board Support Package & Kernel

• Maintain and extend the Linux BSP

  for NXP i.MX8MP (U-Boot, kernel, device tree, low-level drivers).

• Bring up and debug new hardware revisions.

• Tune and configure drivers / DT for CSI camera interfaces, I²C/SPI devices, GPIOs, and storage subsystems.

• Improve system boot time, robustness, and recovery mechanisms.

Yocto & System Distribution

• Maintain Yocto layers

  , recipes, and configurations for a custom embedded distribution.

• Integrate and patch third-party components (e.g., GStreamer, networking tools, debugging utilities).

• Ensure reproducible builds and a clean separation between BSP and application layers.

Video & Streaming Pipeline

• Implement and debug GStreamer pipelines

  for:

• CSI v4l2 video capture

• H.264 hardware-accelerated encoding

• real-time streaming

• SD-card recording

• Profile and optimize CPU/GPU/VPU performance, bandwidth usage, and pipeline latency.

System Services & Reliability

• Design and maintain systemd services

  (recorders, watchdogs, monitoring).

• Handle power events, removable storage, degraded I/O conditions, and error recovery.

• Add system health monitoring, structured logging, and field diagnostics.

Networking & Integration

• Configure and debug network links for high throughput and low latency.
• Integrate the compute module with auxiliary modules via UART and similar interfaces.
• Collaborate with MCU/firmware developers on communication protocols and update workflows.

Tooling & Bring-Up

• Develop CLI tools and automation scripts (Bash/Python) for flashing, testing, diagnostics.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for bring-up, updates, and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an Embedded Linux Engineer

  working on real hardware.

• Strong C programming skills

  in low-level Linux (kernel or near-kernel userspace).

• Solid Yocto

  experience:

• writing and modifying recipes and classes

• maintaining custom layers

• building and debugging board-specific images

• Hands-on experience with U-Boot

  and Linux kernel

  on ARM SoCs (NXP i.MX preferred).

• Confident working with device tree

  (bindings, nodes, peripheral enablement).

• Practical experience with GStreamer

  for capture/encode/stream pipelines.

• Deep understanding of systemd

  (units, dependencies, journald, debugging).

• Strong Linux CLI and debugging skills: dmesg

  ,

  journalctl

  ,

  strace

  ,

  gdb

  ,

  perf

  , etc.

• Basic hardware debugging: UART console, logic analyzer, oscilloscope.

• Ability to read schematics and understand SW–HW interactions (power domains, reset logic, muxing).

• Good written and spoken English for documentation and technical discussions.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with NXP i.MX8MP

  or similar multimedia SoCs.

• Experience with wireless links

  in constrained or outdoor setups.

• Knowledge of OTA update frameworks (SWUpdate, Mender, etc.) — including A/B slots and rollback strategies.

• Exposure to UAV / robotics systems (MAVLink, telemetry, UDP streams).

• Experience with OpenWrt, Armbian, or other embedded Linux distros.

• Python for tooling, log parsing, and utilities.

• Experience working with MCUs

  (e.g., STM32) and managing firmware updates from Linux.

• Background in field-deployed systems requiring high reliability and observability.

Personal Profile

• Methodical and evidence-driven

  • rely on logs, measurements, and tests rather than assumptions.

• Comfortable working end-to-end

  , from bootloader and kernel to services and scripting.

• Ready to take ownership of a complex embedded Linux platform

  and keep it robust, debuggable, and maintainable.

• Enjoy solving challenging problems in tightly constrained environments.