Linux & Yocto Systems Engineer (Hybrid)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in; San Juan (PR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Engineer specializing in Linux/Yocto to join our Finance team. You will contribute to building a next-generation Network Operating System across x86 and ARM platforms.

The role is hybrid with about two days per week in an HPE office, focusing on kernel development, Yocto distributions, BSP work, and performance optimizations. Collaboration with hardware, platform, and software teams is essential to deliver production-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong low-level systems programming in C/C++.
• Deep understanding of Linux kernel internals, OS fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience debugging and maintaining Linux kernel and user-space components.
• Strong Yocto Project expertise, including layer management, recipe development, backporting, and package integration.
• Strong understanding of compiler optimizations, C/C++ undefined behavior, memory models, and how modern compilers leverage these assumptions for optimization.
• Experience with x86/ARM systems, BSP development, and hardware bring-up.
• Hands-on knowledge of PCIe, SPI, I2C, GPIO, MDIO, and interrupt handling.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, 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 internals

Yocto Project

compiler optimizations

C/C++ undefined behavior

x86/ARM systems

BSP development

PCIe

SPI

I2C

GPIO

MDIO

interrupt handling

problem-solving

debugging

collaboration

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Engineer specializing in Linux/Yocto to join our Finance team. You will contribute to building a next-generation Network Operating System across x86 and ARM platforms.

The role is hybrid with about two days per week in an HPE office, focusing on kernel development, Yocto distributions, BSP work, and performance optimizations. Collaboration with hardware, platform, and software teams is essential to deliver production-quality solutions.