{"id":54272,"title":"Senior Embedded Linux Engineer","company":"Xneural GmbH","city":"Dresden","region":"Sachsen","location":"01097 Dresden","work_model":"unknown","employment_type":"full_time","employment":["full_time"],"roles":["embedded"],"visa":"not_mentioned","relocation":"not_mentioned","posted_at":"2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00","tools":["Linux","RTOS","Yocto","Embedded Systems","CI/CD","ARM Cortex","C","Python"],"seniority":"senior","years_experience_min":7,"german_requirement":"not_required","german_level":"unspecified","english_requirement":"required","english_level":"unspecified","team_language":"unknown","confidence":0.9,"method":"rules","language_badge":"No German needed","language_evidence":"German language skills are beneficial but not required","requirements_snippet":"- Experience with radar systems, RF engineering, DSP, or signal processing - Experience with heterogeneous SoCs combining Linux and RTOS environments - Familiarity with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar RTOS - Contributions to …","url":"https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/jobdetail/10001-1003613810-S","source":"bundesagentur","agency":null,"description_text":"## Role Overview\n\nAs 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.\n\n## Key Responsibilities\n\n- Lead embedded Linux bring-up on custom ARM-based hardware platforms\n- Develop and maintain Yocto-based Linux distributions and BSPs including bootloaders, kernel configuration, device trees, and peripheral drivers\n- Design and implement secure device platforms, including secure boot, firmware signing, and robust OTA update mechanisms with rollback support\n- Design debugging, logging, and remote diagnostics infrastructure\n- Work with the team to design reproducible build environments and CI/CD pipelines for embedded software development\n- Define embedded software architecture and provide technical leadership, driving best practices and mentoring engineers as the team grows\n\n## Required Qualifications\n\n- 7+ years of hands-on embedded Linux development experience (a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is welcome, though equivalent practical experience counts just as much)\n- Strong expertise with the Yocto Project and Linux BSP development on ARM Cortex-A based systems\n- Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of Python, C++, or Rust\n- Knowledge of embedded Linux security: secure boot, firmware signing, and system hardening\n- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and reproducible software builds\n- Ability to debug hardware/software interactions using laboratory equipment\n\n## Nice to Have\n\n- Experience with radar systems, RF engineering, DSP, or signal processing\n- Experience with heterogeneous SoCs combining Linux and RTOS environments\n- Familiarity with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar RTOS\n- Contributions to open-source projects (Linux Kernel, Yocto, U-Boot, RAUC, SWUpdate, Mender)\n- Experience mentoring engineers and growing technical teams\n- German language skills are beneficial but not required","responsibilities_text":"- Lead embedded Linux bring-up on custom ARM-based hardware platforms\n- Develop and maintain Yocto-based Linux distributions and BSPs including bootloaders, kernel configuration, device trees, and peripheral drivers\n- Design and implement secure device platforms, including secure boot, firmware signing, and robust OTA update mechanisms with rollback support\n- Design debugging, logging, and remote diagnostics infrastructure\n- Work with the team to design reproducible build environments and CI/CD pipelines for embedded software development\n- Define embedded software architecture and provide technical leadership, driving best practices and mentoring engineers as the team grows\n## Required Qualifications\n- 7+ years of hands-on embedded Linux development experience (a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is welcome, though equivalent practical experience counts just as much)\n- Strong expertise with the Yocto Project and Linux BSP development on ARM Cortex-A based systems\n- Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of Python, C++, or Rust\n- Knowledge of embedded Linux security: secure boot, firmware signing, and system hardening\n- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and reproducible software builds\n- Ability to debug hardware/software interactions using laboratory equipment","requirements_text":"- Experience with radar systems, RF engineering, DSP, or signal processing\n- Experience with heterogeneous SoCs combining Linux and RTOS environments\n- Familiarity with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar RTOS\n- Contributions to open-source projects (Linux Kernel, Yocto, U-Boot, RAUC, SWUpdate, Mender)\n- Experience mentoring engineers and growing technical teams\n- German language skills are beneficial but not required","status":"open","duplicate_of":null,"first_seen":"2026-11-02T15:33:18.099636+00:00","responsibilities_summary":null,"requirements_summary":null,"all_tools":["Linux","RTOS","Yocto","Embedded Systems","CI/CD","ARM Cortex","C","Python","C++","Rust","Git"],"posting_language":"en","evidence":[{"language":"german","requirement":"not_required","quote":"German language skills are beneficial but not required","source":"rules"}],"years_experience_max":null,"mobility_evidence":[],"model_version":"rules-8","english_badge":"English required","company_id":null}