Embedded Linux Software Engineer – Robotics Platform (DeviceOS)
Embedded Linux engineer on Anduril's DeviceOS team, owning the boot path and BSP layer for its robotic platforms (drones, Sentry Towers). Day-to-day work spans customizing vendor BSPs (Tegra/Jetson, NXP), writing kernel/device-tree patches, debugging firmware-to-encrypted-root boot chains, remediating CVEs on deployed fleets, and building HIL test suites using C, Rust/C++, U-Boot/EDK2, and NixOS.
- Compensation
- $166K–$220K / yr
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Embedded
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4+ years of professional embedded Linux platform, sustainment of deployed embedded Linux platforms, or kernel-adjacent integration experience
- Deep understanding of the embedded Linux boot chain: firmware/bootloaders (U-Boot, EDK2), device trees, kernel command line, initrd/initramfs, and root filesystem assembly
- Strong programming skills in C for kernel/driver development and BSP patching
- Proficiency in Rust or C++ for userspace platform integration and services
- Hands-on bench debugging experience: serial consoles, reading schematics and component datasheets, tracing issues to the board level
- Experience maintaining software deployed on real-world hardware with safe, brick-resilient, regression-validated updates
- U.S. Person status required due to export control (ITAR/EAR), with eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Nice to have
- Nix/NixOS experience for embedded builds, or deep Yocto/Buildroot expertise with willingness to transition to reproducible paradigms
- NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra depth: JetPack, Jetson Linux BSP, Tegra boot architecture, or CUDA compute runtime integration
- Low-level platform security: hardware root-of-trust, secure boot, HAB/AHAB, or measured boot (TPM)
- Experience architecting automated HIL test benches using Python or Bash
- Familiarity with functional programming paradigms (e.g., Nix, Haskell)
- Upstream open-source contributions to the Linux kernel, U-Boot, or system-level projects
Full description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
About the Team
Anduril develops advanced robotic systems that operate at the edge across land, sea, and air. Our team builds the critical systems powering everything from Group 1–3 autonomous aerial systems (such as Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius) to autonomous Sentry Towers that safeguard borders and critical infrastructure with real-time sensor fusion.
Underpinning these diverse robotic fleets is ourDeviceOS team, which engineers the unified, highly reliable operating system and hardware-enablement platform that powers all of Anduril's autonomous assets. We take systems from initial schematics and paper sketches to hardened, field-ready robotics deployed in the most challenging operational environments on Earth.
About the Job
Underneath our airframes and Sentry Towers are custom carrier boards, embedded ARM architectures, and NVIDIA Jetson modules integrated with an intense array of hardware: electro-optical/infrared cameras, radars, CAN-connected sensor nodes, GPS, flight controllers, radios, and high-power motor drivers.
Between the silicon vendor’s raw Board Support Package (BSP) and our autonomous mission software sits a layer that must be owned deliberately: the boot chain, device trees, kernel drivers, and the guarantee that every piece of hardware deterministically enumerates and operates when our image boots.
In this role, you will own the boundary where custom hardware meets software. You will customize vendor BSPs and evaluate upstream changes. You will debug boot end-to-end—from firmware (EDK2/U-Boot) through unified kernel images to an encrypted root filesystem running at the tactical edge. You are the engineer who can read a schematic to diagnose a bus fault, remediate a kernel CVE on deployed hardware, and write the platform drivers that keep our robots flying and monitoring.
In this role, you will maintain and support a large deployed fleet by writing fixes for existing hardware and boot chains. This work is critical to our operations: a firmware regression is not just a failing test, it is a physical unit someone has to service in the field.
What You’ll Do
- Own the boot sequence end-to-end on deployed compute: low-level firmware, U-Boot/UEFI, unified kernel images, initrd, encrypted storage unlock, and handoff to a running NixOS environment. Debug boot failures on hardware via remote support.