Technical Specialist – Embedded Linux

Role: Technical Specialist – Embedded Linux

Location: Hyderabad

Full/ Part-time: Full time

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About the role: An energetic person who will a key part of Carrier Engineering Embedded Platforms team, developing and releasing robust Yocto-based Linux OS distributions to multiple Business Units for various embedded product applications. This position requires the ability to work under minimal direction, utilize coding skills and automation expertise, interact, and collaborate with diverse geographically distributed teams, and to establish best practice/guideline for Linux build and deployments.

Role Responsibilities:

• Design, Development of NPD and existing systems to Yocto-based Linux platforms

• Maintain and support the Yocto build system in a CI/CD environment, including packaging and deployment of software images.

• Configure, modify, and integrate the kernel and embedded boot loaders.

• Responsible for custom driver porting and applying patches to legacy packages.

• Design and develop the automation to validate the builds in the CI/CD pipeline.

• Close connect to the Yocto project and collaboration with the open-source community

• Proficiently work with development methodologies such as Agile, SAFe etc. and related project management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, IBM Jazz etc.

Minimum Requirements:

• Qualifications: BE/ME or BTech/MTech – Electronics or BE/BTech in Electronics or ME/MTech in computer Science with 10+ years of experience in below areas:-

• Professional experience in software development using C/C++

• Experience in using scripting languages like Python, Shell etc

• A passion for Linux and open source

• Solid experience in using embedded Linux (Yocto/ OpenEmbedded or buildroot)

• Experience in using U-Boot, Linux kernel configuration and Device tree.

• Experience in building Linux platforms with open source packages and related testing.

• Confident in the use of GNU (Cross-)Toolchain, (C)Make

• Experience in creating images for different hardware platforms like ARM series (NXP, TI)

• Experience with modern DevOps practices and tools: test-driven development, SCM (Git), automated builds and tests, CI/CD with Gitlab, Jenkins, AWS etc.

• Git expertise to ensure merges, rebasing, cherry picking etc

• Expert knowledge of build automation/DevOps tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Chef/Ansible etc)

• Knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts of DevSecOps and Cybersecurity.

• Hands-on experience to build and handle VM’s, Containers utilizing tools like, Docker.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong background in Linux & Windows administration.

• Knowledge on CVE & Security requirements on Linux

• Experienced in secure boot, encryption, and software update mechanisms

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package that may include other benefits and well‑being programs. Offerings vary by role and location and are designed to support employees’ health, security, and success.

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