Yocto LTS Maintainer- Contractor
📌San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ contract
🧙♂️ senior
remote
The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded system deployments in connected edge devices, servers, or virtual environments, regardless of the hardware architecture.
Job Description
About the Role
The Yocto Project is seeking an experienced, community-minded LTS Maintainer to take over maintenance of its Long-Term Stable (LTS) releases, beginning with the upcoming Yocto Project 6.0 LTS release in April 2026.
This is a critical role that ensures long-term stability, security, and support for the Yocto Project’s LTS branches. You’ll work closely with the current maintainer during a transition phase and ultimately own the process of delivering quarterly (or more frequent) point releases.
If you’re a long-time Yocto/OpenEmbedded contributor with deep technical skills and a passion for open source sustainability, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain Core Yocto LTS Layers: bitbake, openembedded-core, meta-yocto, and yocto-docs.
- Monitor and Backport Fixes: Review submitted patches, audit master and stable branches for fixes, and queue appropriate patches for build/test.
- Release Management: Plan and coordinate LTS dot releases, including release notes, build monitoring, test result review, and scheduling.
- Security and Quality Assurance: Track and assess CVEs, run tools like cve-check, and publish results.
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Community Engagement: Participate in mailing lists, collaborate with contributors, and maintain documentation and planning materials.
Required Experience:
- Strong familiarity with Git
- Open Source development background, ideally in Yocto/OpenEmbedded
- Excellent communication via email and IRC
- Python and shell scripting skills
- Understanding of software security issues (assessment, handling, mitigation)
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Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a distributed community
- Experience with:
- Yocto Project Bugzilla
- Yocto Project Autobuilder
- Patchwork
- Member of OpenEmbedded
- 5+ years of Yocto/OpenEmbedded development
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Long-term software maintenance experience
Work Environment
- Fully remote role with preference for candidates in EU or EST time zones
- Collaborative team environment with global contributors and stakeholders
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Reports to program leadership and works closely with technical maintainers, engineers, and governance representatives
This is a unique opportunity to influence one of the most widely adopted open source projects in the embedded and systems space. You’ll collaborate with top engineers and organizations around the world, shaping the direction and delivery of software that powers critical applications.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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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