Senior Embedded Linux Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Munich; applicants must have the right to work in Europe.

Company

A global automotive technology company developing computer vision silicon and software for ADAS and autonomous driving, with technology deployed in production vehicles worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop Linux userspace and bring up services for reliable system boot and operation under embedded constraints.
• Integrate vendor SDKs, BSPs, drivers, libraries, runtimes and other userspace components into custom Linux images.
• Own distribution composition, including packages, sysroots, filesystem layout and image configuration.
• Develop Python tooling for image delivery, flashing, target provisioning and environment setup.
• Debug system-level issues across init systems, services, dependencies, library and ABI compatibility, and runtime integration.
• Perform root cause analysis and support board bring-up and platform enablement for new SoC generations and associated hardware.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of Embedded Linux development, with a strong focus on systems software, userspace or Linux distribution engineering.
• Strong C/C++ skills and understanding of POSIX APIs, system libraries and userspace/kernel interactions.
• Deep understanding of the Linux boot process, bootloaders, kernel hand-off, init systems and root filesystem architecture.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining embedded Linux distributions with Yocto, Buildroot or Linux From Scratch.
• Experience integrating vendor SDKs, BSPs, third-party drivers and userspace components into custom Linux images.
• Practical debugging experience with GDB, Valgrind, strace and perf.
• Python proficiency for deployment automation, packaging and infrastructure tooling.

Nice to have

• Automotive embedded software development experience.
• Experience with GPU or accelerator compute stacks, including drivers, userspace runtimes, inference or compute libraries, and cross-compilation/sysroot workflows.
• Ability to interpret hardware schematics and understand basic hardware interfaces and signals.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time position within the Platform Software organisation and Operating System team.
• Work on a proprietary automotive computer vision SoC platform used in production vehicles worldwide.