Embedded Linux Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and maintain embedded Linux software for the CM-70 interceptor's flight and mission computer. This includes developing kernel drivers, BSP customizations, and real-time software components.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain embedded Linux software from BSP to application layer
• Develop and maintain Linux kernel drivers and BSP customizations
• Port, optimize, and maintain software on GPU-accelerated ARM SoC compute modules
• Build real-time and deterministic software components
• Develop and maintain low-level device drivers, bootloaders, and system init
• Integrate flight computer software with sensors, actuators, and communication systems
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure
• Debug issues across the full stack using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Contribute to system architecture decisions
• Support integration, bench testing, and field testing

Required qualifications

• Production experience developing embedded Linux systems, including kernel and driver development, BSP customization, and build systems such as Yocto or Buildroot
• Solid understanding of Linux internals: process and memory management, device drivers, interrupt handling, and the boot process, including bootloaders such as U-Boot
• Experience with embedded communication protocols and buses, such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and Ethernet
• Experience working with vendor-supplied Linux distributions and SDKs for ARM-based SoC compute modules
• Comfort working close to the hardware: reading schematics and using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, code review, and CI/CD for embedded targets
• Strong experience with C++ and Python

Nice to have

• Experience developing software for flight computers, avionics, or other safety- or mission-critical embedded systems in aerospace or defence
• Exposure to hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing, flight software verification, or formal systems engineering processes
• Familiarity with GPU-accelerated compute on embedded/edge platforms (e.g., CUDA, TensorRT)
• Familiarity with Robot Operating System (ROS)
• Military background
• Post-secondary education in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field

Benefits

• Real ownership from day one
• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful upside from joining an early-stage company

Before you apply

• Eligibility for a Government of Canada security clearance

About the company

North Vector Dynamics is building the next-generation unmanned systems.