Hybrid Linux & Yocto Systems Engineer (Kernel & BSP)

Zerto; San Juan (PR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our Linux/Yocto team. The role focuses on the Linux kernel, OS infrastructure, and user-space software across x86 and ARM, aiming for performance, reliability, security, and scalability.

You will build and maintain Yocto distributions, enable new hardware platforms, and collaborate with hardware, platform, and software groups to deliver production-quality solutions. Hybrid work with two days per week in an office.

Qualifications

• Strong low-level systems programming in C/C++.
• Deep understanding of Linux kernel internals and OS fundamentals.
• Experience debugging Linux kernel and user-space components.
• Strong Yocto Project expertise, including layer management and packaging.
• Experience with x86/ARM, BSP development and hardware bring-up.
• Hands-on knowledge of PCIe, SPI, I2C, GPIO, MDIO, and interrupts.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Linux kernel, platform, and infrastructure software.
• Debug and resolve complex bugs, security vulnerabilities, and integration issues across the software stack.
• Build and maintain Yocto-based distributions, including layers, recipes, packaging, and backports.
• Enable new hardware platforms and support BSP development.
• Improve system performance, automation, testing, and developer productivity.
• Collaborate across hardware, platform, and software teams to deliver production-quality solutions.

Skills

C/C++

Linux kernel

Yocto Project

Compiler optimizations

x86/ARM BSP

PCIe/SPI/I2C

Debugging

Team collaboration

Tools

Git

Patch management

Backporting

Debian packaging

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our Linux/Yocto team. The role focuses on the Linux kernel, OS infrastructure, and user-space software across x86 and ARM, aiming for performance, reliability, security, and scalability.

You will build and maintain Yocto distributions, enable new hardware platforms, and collaborate with hardware, platform, and software groups to deliver production-quality solutions. Hybrid work with two days per week in an office.