Staff Edge Systems Engineer - Linux & Factory IT

Roboticsconnected; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Generous holiday calendar

Parental Leave

Lifestyle Spending Account

FSA/HSA

Hospital Indemnity insurance

Critical Illness insurance

Accident insurance

Life/AD&D coverage

Mental Health Resources

Job summary

Firestorm is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the systems layer for Crucible's edge deployments in San Diego, CA. You will own the Linux environment, deployment and lifecycle infrastructure, and interfaces to factory machines and production hardware.

Join a team delivering deployable manufacturing infrastructure and air-gapped operation capabilities, with opportunities to influence edge-to-cloud architecture and security across edge devices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building systems, platform, infrastructure, or embedded Linux software.
• US person due to ITAR regulations.
• Deep Linux experience including processes, networking, filesystems, service management, and debugging.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems programming language.
• Experience building and operating software on physical or edge compute.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Experience provisioning, configuration management, software updates, or device lifecycle management.
• Experience integrating software with hardware, peripherals, or external devices.
• Demonstrated ability to debug problems across software, operating system, network, and hardware boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Build Crucible's edge platform — Design the runtime and infrastructure that runs Crucible in factories, xCells, and air-gapped environments.
• Own the Linux environment — Define how systems are configured, provisioned, networked, secured, updated, and recovered.
• Connect the factory floor — Build interfaces to machines, workstations, printers, scanners, test equipment, and other production hardware.
• Build for disconnected operation — Make edge systems reliable through network loss, degraded connectivity, restart, and recovery.
• Own device lifecycle — Build tooling for provisioning, configuration, software updates, diagnostics, and fleet management.
• Debug the full system — Troubleshoot problems across applications, Linux, networking, peripherals, and physical equipment.
• Partner on architecture — Work with software leadership and architecture on edge-to-cloud interfaces, deployment topology, security, and system boundaries.

Skills

Systems/Linux development

US ITAR compliance

Linux systems

Systems language

Edge compute

Networking basics

CM/Provisioning

Hardware integration

Debug cross-stack

Edge-to-cloud architecture

Job description

Firestorm is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the systems layer for Crucible's edge deployments in San Diego, CA. You will own the Linux environment, deployment and lifecycle infrastructure, and interfaces to factory machines and production hardware.

Join a team delivering deployable manufacturing infrastructure and air-gapped operation capabilities, with opportunities to influence edge-to-cloud architecture and security across edge devices.