Senior Embedded Linux Software Engineer

Overview

We seek a highly skilled and technically capable Japan-based Senior Embedded Linux Software engineer (Speaking Japanese is mandatory and able to work with a global team in English productively) to join the Linaro Professional Services team. Applicants should have a proven record of architecting, developing and delivering system software for production-grade embedded systems e.g. consumer electronics and industrial IoT devices. As an experienced senior developer, you will cover the role of a technical leader in customer projects, providing end-to-end operating system (Yocto/OpenEmbedded) support, implementing low-level firmware from scratch, developing bootloader or linux kernel new feature, bringing up BSPs for devices, and serving as firmware, kernel and OS, E2E performance optimization expert on the project.

A successful candidate will develop, support, maintain, and document software functionality; identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation; analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed; participate in software design and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements; and consult with the end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs. Requires expert skill set, proficiency, and a proven record of open-source contributions.

Main Duties

Firstly you are a technical expert and enjoy tackling technical challenges, and are proud of what you do. Secondly you are flexible and open to contribute to support Linaro’s business expansion in Japan. If these expectations sound inspiring to you, we are excited to discuss with you!

• Design and development of complex operating system solutions.
• Provide solution architecting consultancy to customers and deliver complex customer projects on time and quality with minimum supervision.
• Provide technical leadership in customer service projects. Influence others and build consensus, through engineering best practices and/or specialist knowledge.
• Contribute to Linaro business development activities, and interact with customers and serve customers in professionalism, grow the Linaro business in Japan.
• Bring up hardware platforms from scratch.
• Enable and test end-to-end use cases on new platforms.
• Provide technical support and implement bug fixes.
• Drive forward significant features or improvements and increase the quality of the product.
• Develop quality functionality on schedule, including specification, design, development, documentation, and testing.
• Collaborate with a global remote team and engage with the upstream community productively.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Must be Japan based and speaking Japanese is mandatory and also able to work with a global remote based team in English productively.
• Minimum five years of relevant in-depth experience working with production-grade embedded Linux for Embedded/Consumer Electronics/IoT Devices.
• Minimum five years of low-level firmware and bootloader, linux kernel driver developing and community upstream experience.
• Familiar with AARCH64 processor architecture(e.g. ARM V8 or newer generation), memory and cache system, ISA and microarchitecture pipeline.
• Extensive developing and optimizing experience from boot ROM, low-level firmware, bootloader all the way up to root-fs and Linux userland application.
• Familiar with OS image generation, packaging, release methodology, upgrades and updates, and CI/CD
• Participated in upstreaming of Linux projects like Linux kernel and u-boot, ARM trusted firmware.
• Knowledge of hardware, read circuit schematics and experience of collaborating with hardware engineers
• Track record of open source contributions to U-Boot, Linux kernel, YOCTO userspace, or other open source projects in general

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Prior experience with Linux hibernation or suspend.
• Pre-sales customer supporting experience.
• Solution architect and customer oriented professionalism.
• Published in open source forums, blogs, articles, etc
• Ideal candidates for this role would be curious, dependable, and adaptable, as well as pragmatic and capable of outreach.

Location: Remote from Japan