Senior Embedded OS Engineer — Real-Time Robotics Platform

Redmond (WA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 260,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Meta is hiring a software engineer to help architect and evolve the Robotics OS, Meta's build of NVIDIA Jetson Linux for Thor-class robot compute. The role focuses on OS image design, real-time behavior, update systems, and secure boot to support a growing fleet of production robots.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, controls, and AI engineers across Meta and NVIDIA to plan Jetson/Linux releases, drive board bring-up, and ensure reliable, scalable software across multiple compute

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of experience building and shipping system software for embedded Linux or Android-based products.
Experience architecting and owning an operating system, BSP or platform software stack on a shipped hardware product.
Deep experience with C and Linux kernel internals, including device drivers, device tree, scheduling, interrupts, and memory management.
Proficient in at least one of C++, Rust or Python.
Experience driving new-SoC or new-board bring-up on ARM64, from boot chain through kernel to a production OS.
Experience designing OS image build and release systems, such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, Debian packaging or AOSP, including the strategy for updates and release management.
Experience debugging hard cross-layer problems spanning hardware, firmware, kernel and user space.
Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or organizations, including external silicon or hardware vendors.
Experience growing a platform from prototype to production fleet scale.
A track record of upstream contributions to the Linux kernel, Yocto or related open-source projects.
Experience designing secure boot, verified boot and OTA / A/B update systems for a large device fleet.
Experience with EtherCAT, CAN-FD or other robotics fieldbuses, and with host-to-microcontroller architectures (FreeRTOS, Zephyr).
GPU platform experience: CUDA, NVML/MIG, TensorRT, or deploying ML inference on edge devices alongside real-time workloads.
Deep hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson (Orin / Thor) and Jetson Linux / JetPack, including custom carrier-board bring-up, BCT/BPMP configuration, nvidia-oot, and flashing and mass-production tooling.
Experience with real-time Linux in production (PREEMPT_RT, CPU and interrupt isolation, latency analysis) for robotics, automotive, industrial or other safety-critical systems.
Experience with Yocto / meta-tegra, and with hermetic build and CI systems.
Experience with AOSP or other mobile/XR OS platform work: vendor BSP integration, HALs, SELinux, init, OTA, or kernel and vendor upgrade programs.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for the Robotics OS (BSP, kernel, OS image, update system, and fleet tooling).
Architect the next-generation OS image with a Yocto/meta-tegra based build, ensuring reproducibility and security.
Define and drive the production update strategy: atomic A/B, OTA updates, rollback, secure boot, and provisioning.
Shape the platform's real-time architecture, setting latency budgets and measurement infrastructure.
Collaborate with NVIDIA Jetson teams and Meta engineers, align on Jetson Linux / JetPack releases with minimal fork debt.
Partner with electrical, firmware, and mechanical engineers on compute and carrier-board designs.
Drive bring-up of new boards end to end: boot chain, BPMP, device tree, pinmux, PCIe/USB/Ethernet, drivers.
Help set quality for RT kernel and out-of-tree drivers, plan upstream or alignment with Meta's kernel.
Build reliability and observability: crash/log capture, symbolization, boot tracing, telemetry, fleet triage tooling.
Raise engineering standards through design reviews, mentorship, and technical hiring.