Real-Time Embedded Linux Engineer (Yocto & Ethernet)

Hitachi Energy

Västerås kommun

On-site

SEK 700,000 - 900,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Group life insurance

Health care & wellness allowance

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Västerås is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to enhance features in user-space applications on real-time Linux systems within intelligent electronic devices for substation automation.

You will work in a scrum team, collaborating across software and hardware disciplines to ensure performance and reliability of mission-critical embedded systems, with on-site work at Västerås office.

Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Proven embedded software development experience and real-time operating systems, especially Linux with PREEMPT_RT.
Hands-on Yocto Project experience for building, customizing, maintaining embedded Linux distributions.
Solid understanding of Ethernet networking, Linux networking architecture, and debugging network drivers/components.
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

Develop and enhance features for user-space applications running on real-time Linux systems in IEDs for substation automation.
Collaborate with software and hardware teams to ensure mission-critical embedded systems meet performance and reliability requirements.
Contribute to Agile/Scrum processes and maintain documentation for code and configurations.
Design, implement, test, and optimize embedded software for low latency and high reliability.
Create and maintain automated tests, using virtualization and emulation for testing.