Automotive Embedded Linux Engineer (ECU & SoC)

Altentechnologyusa; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking an Embedded Linux / High-Compute Engineer to sustain software for production automotive ECUs. You will manage component changes, deploy updates, and support manufacturing test, taking over existing codebases and validating changes while documenting processes for repeatability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in automotive embedded software, with hands-on debugging and knowledge of Yocto, CI pipelines, and secure boot.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of automotive embedded software.
• Experience deploying test updates at a contract manufacturer.
• Ability to judge when a component change requires a software change and validate it.
• Automotive change control (PPAP, DV/PV, deviations).
• Hands-on bench debugging with standard lab tools.
• Writes SOPs/runbooks as part of the job.
• Embedded Linux on automotive SoCs; QNX or Android a plus.
• Storage bring-up: partitioning, device tree, boot flow for eMMC/UFS/SSD/DRAM changes.
• Yocto builds, CI pipelines, multi-repo workflows.
• Secure boot and signed-image flows.
• Nice to have: Qualcomm, NXP i.MX or NVIDIA platforms; legacy code with thin documentation.

Responsibilities

• Sustain software for production automotive ECUs.
• Handle component changes (obsolete parts, memory swaps, second sources).
• Take over existing codebases, implement changes, and validate.
• Document the process so it can run independently.

Skills

Embedded Linux

Automotive software

Bench debugging

SOPs / runbooks

QA/PPAP

Tools

Yocto

CI pipelines

QNX

Android

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking an Embedded Linux / High-Compute Engineer to sustain software for production automotive ECUs. You will manage component changes, deploy updates, and support manufacturing test, taking over existing codebases and validating changes while documenting processes for repeatability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in automotive embedded software, with hands-on debugging and knowledge of Yocto, CI pipelines, and secure boot.