Senior Embedded Linux Software Engineer
📌Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
remote
We seek a highly skilled and technically capable Japan-based Senior Embedded Linux Software engineer ( Speaking Japanese is mandatory and able to work with a global team in English productively ) to join the Linaro Professional Services team. Applicants should have a proven record of architecting, developing and delivering system software for production-grade embedded systems e.g. consumer electronics and industrial IoT devices. As an experienced senior developer, you will cover the role of a technical leader in customer projects, providing end-to-end operating system (Yocto/OpenEmbedded) support, implementing low-level firmware from scratch, developing bootloader or linux kernel new feature, bringing up BSPs for devices, and serving as firmware, kernel and OS, E2E performance optimization expert on the project.
A successful candidate will develop, support, maintain, and document software functionality; identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation; analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed; participate in software design and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements; and consult with the end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs. Requires expert skill set, proficiency, and a proven record of open-source contributions.
Main Duties
Firstly you are a technical expert and enjoy tackling technical challenges, and are proud of what you do. Secondly you are flexible and open to contribute to support Linaro’s business expansion in Japan. If these expectations sound inspiring to you, we are excited to discuss with you!
- Design and development of complex operating system solutions.
- Provide solution architecting consultancy to customers and deliver complex customer projects on time and quality with minimum supervision.
- Provide technical leadership in customer service projects. Influence others and build consensus, through engineering best practices and/or specialist knowledge.
- Contribute to Linaro business development activities, and interact with customers and serve customers in professionalism, grow the Linaro business in Japan.
- Bring up hardware platforms from scratch.
- Enable and test end-to-end use cases on new platforms.
- Provide technical support and implement bug fixes.
- Drive forward significant features or improvements and increase the quality of the product.
- Develop quality functionality on schedule, including specification, design, development, documentation, and testing.
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Collaborate with a global remote team and engage with the upstream community productively.
- Must be Japan based and speaking Japanese is mandatory and also able to work with a global remote based team in English productively.
- Minimum five years of relevant in-depth experience working with production-grade embedded Linux for Embedded/Consumer Electronics/IoT Devices.
- Minimum five years of low-level firmware and bootloader, linux kernel driver developing and community upstream experience.
- Familiar with AARCH64 processor architecture(e.g. ARM V8 or newer generation), memory and cache system, ISA and microarchitecture pipeline.
- Extensive developing and optimizing experience from boot ROM, low-level firmware, bootloader all the way up to root-fs and Linux userland application.
- Familiar with OS image generation, packaging, release methodology, upgrades and updates, and CI/CD
- Participated in upstreaming of Linux projects like Linux kernel and u-boot, ARM trusted firmware.
- Knowledge of hardware, read circuit schematics and experience of collaborating with hardware engineers
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Track record of open source contributions to U-Boot, Linux kernel, YOCTO userspace, or other open source projects in general
- Prior experience with Linux hibernation or suspend.
- Pre-sales customer supporting experience.
- Solution architect and customer oriented professionalism.
- Published in open source forums, blogs, articles, etc
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Ideal candidates for this role would be curious, dependable, and adaptable, as well as pragmatic and capable of outreach.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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