Senior Embedded Linux Engineer - Boot & Platform

Anduril-1; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the boot chain, device trees, and kernel integration for NVIDIA Jetson-based compute towers. You will bridge the platform and Sentry product teams, patching the kernel, BSPs, and device trees to ensure reliable boot and hardware enumeration across generations.

You will debug end-to-end boot, contribute patches, and sustain deployed hardware with security considerations, while collaborating with hardware engineers and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering with embedded Linux platform or kernel-adjacent work.
• Deep understanding of the embedded Linux boot chain: firmware and bootloader stages, UEFI, kernel and initrd, kernel command line, root filesystem mounting, and how each stage fails.
• Device tree fluency: reading and modifying DTS, DTSI, and overlays for custom hardware, and connecting a pinout or pinmux specification to the resulting device tree.
• Ability to read, patch, and debug kernel and BSP source in C, plus proficiency in Rust or C++ for the userspace services that depend on your platform.
• Practical peripheral and bus knowledge across CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, USB, and multi-port Ethernet, sufficient to determine whether a device is missing, misconfigured, or broken.
• Comfort debugging real hardware: serial consoles, boot logs, dmesg archaeology, and reading schematics and datasheets to answer your own questions.
• Demonstrated success driving technical work through another team, with the clarity and persistence to get a platform or vendor issue resolved rather than worked around.
• US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the boot path end to end on every compute generation we ship: firmware, UEFI, the unified kernel image and its command line, initrd, encrypted root unlock, and the handoff into a fully running NixOS system.
• Guarantee full hardware availability at boot: every bus, peripheral, and network interface present, correctly named, and functional, with deterministic enumeration that survives platform and kernel upgrades.
• Own carrier board device trees: reading pinout and pinmux definitions from hardware engineering, producing and maintaining the corresponding DTS, DTSI, and overlay changes, and validating them on real boards.
• Produce kernel, bootloader, and BSP patches when our hardware needs behavior the vendor tree doesn’t provide, and carry those patch sets forward across platform upgrades.
• Serve as our primary technical liaison to the platform organization: file and drive issues with clear reproductions, review upstream changes for impact on our hardware, and land product-side integration for new platform releases.
• Sustain deployed compute generations through vendor lifecycle transitions, applying security patches and backports so fielded systems stay stable and supportable while newer platforms come online.
• Support new hardware bring-up alongside electrical engineers and our platform team, owning the boot and device tree side of getting a new board to a validated, production-flashable state.
• Debug the hard ones: intermittent bus errors, thermal and power-related faults, boot hangs, and failures that only reproduce on one unit in the field.

Skills

Embedded Linux

Device tree fluency

Kernel debugging

C/C++

Rust or C++ (userspace)

Peripheral bus knowledge (CAN, I2C,SPI

Hardware bring-up & debugging

US person status

Tools

NixOS

Jetson Linux BSP

Bazel

Buildroot

Yocto

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the boot chain, device trees, and kernel integration for NVIDIA Jetson-based compute towers. You will bridge the platform and Sentry product teams, patching the kernel, BSPs, and device trees to ensure reliable boot and hardware enumeration across generations.

You will debug end-to-end boot, contribute patches, and sustain deployed hardware with security considerations, while collaborating with hardware engineers and