Senior Embedded BSP Engineer (Jetson Thor, Real-Time Linux)

Apptronik; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptronik, a leader in human-centered robotics, seeks a Senior Embedded BSP Engineer to own the BSP and OS config for the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform in Apollo humanoid robots. You will partner with firmware, hardware, and robot software teams to bring up carrier boards, customize boot chains, and deliver secure, field-updatable OS images for production fleets.

You will tune for low latency, prototype-to-production bring-up, and contribute to platform quality while participating in reviews and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience building, debugging, and shipping embedded systems using Linux and/or QNX.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson (Thor or Orin) and JetPack, including flashing and carrier board customization.
• Strong OS-level skills: Linux kernel configuration, device tree, driver development and debugging, kernel upgrades or backports.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with Python or Bash for tooling, Git, and hardware debugging with scopes, analyzers, and JTAG/serial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the BSP for NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules and custom carrier boards, including board bring-up, device tree, pinmux, and peripheral enablement.
• Customize and maintain the boot chain (firmware, UEFI, and OS loader), kernel or QNX microkernel configuration, and out-of-tree kernel modules or QNX resource managers and drivers.
• Build and maintain OS images (Linux via Yocto or JetPack/Ubuntu, and/or QNX via QNX SDP) with reproducible, CI-driven builds.
• Tune the OS for real-time and low-latency behavior with PREEMPT_RT, CPU isolation, IRQ affinity, QNX scheduling/partitioning, and power/thermal profiles.
• Own OS lifecycle tooling: JetPack / NVIDIA BSP upgrades, A/B OTA updates, secure boot, disk encryption, and fleet flashing and provisioning.
• Triage lab/field issues (boot failures, kernel panics, driver regressions, thermal throttling) and document root causes.
• Define new hardware requirements and review schematics and layout with the hardware team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to bring up compute hardware from prototype through production.
• Develop test strategies with validation teams and participate in code/design reviews; raise the bar for platform quality.

Skills

NVIDIA Jetson

Linux kernel config

Device tree

C/C++

Python/Bash tooling

Git

Hardware debugging

Yocto/Buildroot

QNX Neutrino

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

NVIDIA JetPack

QNX SDP

Yocto

Buildroot

Mender/OTA

CAN/EtherCAT/Ethernet

CUDA/TensorRT

ROS 2

Job description

Apptronik, a leader in human-centered robotics, seeks a Senior Embedded BSP Engineer to own the BSP and OS config for the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform in Apollo humanoid robots. You will partner with firmware, hardware, and robot software teams to bring up carrier boards, customize boot chains, and deliver secure, field-updatable OS images for production fleets.

You will tune for low latency, prototype-to-production bring-up, and contribute to platform quality while participating in reviews and