Embedded Linux Software Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the software foundation for an autonomous ground vehicle fleet. You will manage Ubuntu-based operating system images, middleware, and device drivers.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain custom Ubuntu/Linux distributions for autonomous vehicle workloads.
• Optimize and tune ROS 2 DDS middleware.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain kernel modules and user-space drivers.
• Maintain and expand the network interfaces of the system.
• Implement observability and logging solutions.
• Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers to profile CPU/GPU usage.
• Harden the platform with security patches, secure boot, and OTA update pipelines.
• Own CI/CD pipelines for OS images and driver packages.
• Provide on-call support for platform components during field trials and customer pilots.
• Contribute to technical documentation and best-practice guidelines.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing or maintaining Linux-based embedded or robotics platforms.
• Deep knowledge of Ubuntu or Linux systems, including package management, systemd, networking, and kernel configuration.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience writing or debugging kernel modules and user-space drivers.
• Hands-on experience with ROS 1 or ROS 2 in a production or research setting.
• Familiarity with common communication buses and protocols (USB, Ethernet, CAN, PCIe, SPI, I2C).
• Strong grasp of real-time performance tuning, profiling tools (perf, eBPF, tracing), and resource-constrained optimization.
• Experience with Git, Docker/OCI containers, and automated build systems (Yocto, Buildroot, or similar).

Nice to have

• Prior work on autonomous vehicles, drones, or other safety-critical robotic systems.
• Experience with ptp4l configurations in complex systems.
• Experience with v4l2/gstreamer.
• Experience with Nvidia Orin/Jetson platforms.
• Experience customizing the Linux kernel for PREEMPT_RT or other real-time patches.
• Knowledge of DDS internals and QoS tuning for deterministic data delivery.
• Familiarity with GPU acceleration frameworks (CUDA, Vulkan) and heterogeneous compute scheduling.
• Experience integrating functional safety libraries and tools (e.g., MISRA, ISO 26262 compliance workflow).
• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment and supporting field deployments at airports or other industrial sites.

About the company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. It is a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving.