Senior Embedded Linux Engineer - Hardware & Networking

CSG Talent; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CSG Talent is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer in California to develop Linux-based software interfacing with custom electronics and communications hardware. You will work across application software, low-level hardware integration, networking, and system-health functionality.

You will collaborate with embedded software, electrical and programmable-hardware teams during development, integration and testing to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
• Five or more years of embedded software development experience.
• Strong systems programming skills in C.
• Experience driving software with hardware via device drivers or register interfaces.
• Experience designing embedded or real-time software.
• Strong networking knowledge: sockets, packet handling, Layer 2/3.
• Experience monitoring or controlling physical hardware.
• Understanding of digital communications to integrate with equipment.
• Strong debugging across software and hardware boundaries.
• Ability to collaborate with software, electrical and hardware engineers.
• Knowledge of hardware interfaces and software-hardware integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop application-level software for embedded Linux platforms.
• Design and implement Linux device drivers for sensors, actuators and other hardware components.
• Create hardware abstraction layers and clean software interfaces for custom electronics.
• Develop software for hardware control, monitoring and closed-loop operation.
• Implement network services, packet-processing functionality and protocol interfaces.
• Integrate communications hardware with wider software and data systems.
• Develop fault detection, recovery, status reporting and operating-mode functionality.
• Diagnose complex integration problems across Linux software, electronics, networking and programmable hardware.
• Support hardware integration, laboratory testing and system-level verification.
• Improve software performance, reliability, maintainability and testability.
• Contribute to software architecture, engineering reviews and technical decisions.

Skills

C programming

Embedded Linux

Device drivers

Networking

Debugging

Hardware integration

Real-time software

Linux kernel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

SPI/I2C/UART

Ethernet

FPGA basics

Job description

CSG Talent is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer in California to develop Linux-based software interfacing with custom electronics and communications hardware. You will work across application software, low-level hardware integration, networking, and system-health functionality.

You will collaborate with embedded software, electrical and programmable-hardware teams during development, integration and testing to ensure robust, scalable solutions.