Embedded Linux Engineer — High-Rate Data & FPGA

Avantas AS; Trondheim; Hybrid; NOK 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kontur is expanding its R&D team and seeks an Embedded Linux Engineer to own the Linux platform for our ground-penetrating radar systems. You’ll work on ARM Linux computers with custom add-on cards, writing kernel drivers and user-space interfaces, and maintaining Buildroot.

You’ll help deliver a fast, reliable data server over Ethernet and collaborate with RF, electronics and FPGA engineers. Based at our Trondheim headquarters with hybrid work options and English-friendly environment;

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, electronics, cybernetics or similar, or equivalent experience.
• Strong C skills and comfortable with large unfamiliar codebases; Python for tooling and testing.
• Hands-on Linux platform experience close to hardware (kernel config, boot, device tree, build systems).
• Able to read datasheets and schematics; some kernel-side exposure (DMA, interrupts, PCIe, SPI, I2C, UART, network).
• Good debugging skills on both hardware and software sides; able to work with hardware engineers on early revisions.

Responsibilities

• Own our embedded Linux platform: Buildroot, kernel config, bootloader, device tree and rootfs.
• Write and maintain kernel drivers for custom add-on cards, including DMA paths and memory management.
• Design user-space interfaces and libraries for hardware (character devices, ioctls, mmap, sysfs).
• Bring up new boards and be the software half of hardware debugging.
• Tune networking stack for streaming high-rate sensor data over Ethernet.
• Integrate data from many sensors with proper timing and synchronization.
• Improve latency, throughput and determinism across the acquisition pipeline.
• Keep the platform maintainable with upgrades, reproducible builds, and automated deployment.

Skills

C

Python

Linux kernel debugging

Kernel drivers

Buildroot/Yocto

Education

Master's degree in computer science / electronics / cybernetics

Tools

Buildroot

Yocto

Job description

Kontur is expanding its R&D team and seeks an Embedded Linux Engineer to own the Linux platform for our ground-penetrating radar systems. You’ll work on ARM Linux computers with custom add-on cards, writing kernel drivers and user-space interfaces, and maintaining Buildroot.

You’ll help deliver a fast, reliable data server over Ethernet and collaborate with RF, electronics and FPGA engineers. Based at our Trondheim headquarters with hybrid work options and English-friendly environment;