Sr. Embedded Linux SW Eng, Drone Platform

Position Summary

We are looking for a highly technical Sr. Embedded Linux / C++ Systems Engineer to develop, maintain, and improve core software services running on our drone System-on-Module platform.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot C/C++ utilities and services running on an embedded Linux SOM.
• Support and extend drone management services responsible for button handling, networking setup, radio management, device pairing, and system-level coordination.
• Maintain and improve PX4 log handling and related flight logging workflows.
• Help design and build broader logging and diagnostics services for system, application, flight, and network data.
• Support platform components.
• Work with networking systems used by the drone and ground-control ecosystem, including UDP endpoints, MAVLink Router, gRPC, Protobuf, DHCP, DNS, radio networking, and network monitoring tools.
• Debug and support Radio networking behavior in coordination with other teams.
• Use tools or diagnostics utilities to investigate system-wide networking issues.
• Collaborate with flight software, embedded systems, manufacturing, test, and QA teams to diagnose and resolve field and lab issues.
• Contribute clean, maintainable, well-documented system software for a constrained production environment.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience developing in C and/or C++ on Linux.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge, especially around services, processes, networking, filesystems, permissions, logs, and startup behavior.
• Experience scripting in Linux environments using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
• Practical networking experience, including UDP, DHCP, DNS, ports, routing, and network debugging.
• Experience working on resource-constrained Linux systems or embedded Linux platforms.
• Ability to debug difficult system-level issues using logs, command-line tools, and hands-on investigation.
• Comfortable working on production systems where reliability, maintainability, and observability matter.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to work independently on ambiguous problems.

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Experience with MAVLink, PX4, or drone/UAS systems.
• Experience with MAVLink Router or similar message-routing infrastructure.
• Experience with gRPC and Protobuf.
• Experience with radio networking systems.
• Experience with mesh networks or multi-interface network environments.