About this opportunity
Neros Technologies lists this Senior Embedded Linux Engineer opportunity in torrance, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Who We Are
Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.
What You Will Be Doing
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.
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
You should have the following
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 have
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
US Salary Range
$165,000 – $231,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Worksite address
torrance, CA, 90504, US
Who can apply
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