Senior Embedded Linux Engineer

🕒 July 2

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $210k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Quartermaster

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

Logistics • Manufacturing • Defense

Quartermaster is a company redefining maritime intelligence by providing unmatched precision and visibility in real-time to monitor the world's most remote waters. Their AI-powered SmartMast system transforms everyday vessels into a comprehensive ocean intelligence network, significantly enhancing the monitoring of maritime activities and addressing issues such as smuggling and illegal fishing. By leveraging onboard sensors and high-bandwidth satellite connectivity, Quartermaster delivers high-resolution detections and actionable insights to users, ensuring enhanced maritime awareness and decision-making.

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and improve the embedded Linux software stack running on Jetson Orin NX and AAEON edge compute hardware aboard SmartMast units. • Build and integrate ROS2 nodes and packages for multi-sensor orchestration, including EO cameras (Axis), radar, SDR, AIS, GPS, and thermal imagers. • Design and maintain OTA software and firmware update pipelines (AWS IoT Jobs or Mender-based) that reliably deploy to a globally distributed fleet. • Develop sensor driver integrations and calibration routines; ensure co-collection timing and synchronization across heterogeneous sensor modalities. • Optimize AI inference pipelines running on-device (Jetson TensorRT, CUDA), balancing detection quality against power and thermal constraints. • Build and maintain the secure connectivity layer between SmartMast units and the cloud: Starlink backhaul, Peplink networking, local mesh between units. • Design for reliability in denied, degraded, and intermittent connectivity environments—buffering, store-and-forward, graceful reconnection. • Instrument the edge stack with observability tooling; triage and resolve field-reported issues from units deployed at sea. • Collaborate with the Hardware, Cloud Platform, and AI/ML teams to define clear interfaces across the full system stack.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of embedded Linux or platform software engineering experience on production systems, not just prototype work. • Strong command of C++ and Python; deep familiarity with Linux internals (kernel drivers, systemd, networking stack, file systems). • Hands-on experience with the Yocto Project build framework for creating custom embedded Linux distributions, layers, and recipes. • Hands-on experience with ROS or ROS2 for sensor integration and inter-process communication on robotic or autonomous systems. • Experience with NVIDIA Jetson platforms (Nano, Xavier, Orin) or comparable edge AI hardware; familiarity with TensorRT and CUDA inference optimization. • Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLAN configuration, firewall policy (iptables/nftables), and experience with Peplink or similar industrial routers. • Experience building or operating OTA update systems for embedded fleets; understanding of rollback, A/B partitioning, and safe deployment practices. • Ability to read hardware schematics and collaborate closely with electrical/hardware engineers during bringup and integration. • Strong debugging skills across hardware-software boundaries: serial consoles, logic analyzers, packet captures, and field log analysis.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity