Linux Application Engineer

Job#: 3055478
Job Description:
Linux Application Engineer
Location: Foster City, California (Onsite)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Linux Application Engineer for a key role supporting the application and architecture for a next-generation vehicle platform. The position involves building, optimizing, and maintaining high-performance embedded Linux applications and services. This role will require collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex integration challenges and drive performance optimizations.
Key Responsibilities

• Code, develop, and maintain embedded Linux applications and services for next-generation in-vehicle platforms.
• Drive the new application architecture, ensuring reliability, security, and performance.
• Design scalable interfaces connecting applications, platform services, and core vehicle systems.
• Develop new product features and resolve technical issues identified during vehicle testing.
• Benchmark and optimize system performance across CPU, GPU, memory, I/O, and application latency.
• Identify system bottlenecks and propose software and architecture-level improvements.
• Support software bring-up, system integration, and deployment on new hardware architectures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues, native crashes, and system failures.
• Implement observability, diagnostics, logging, and automated health monitoring frameworks.
• Collaborate across application, hardware, infrastructure, and vehicle engineering domains.
• Establish and champion best practices for software development, testing, security, and release management.

Required Qualifications
Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience: 8+ years of relevant professional engineering experience.
Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in C++ / Python and hands-on Linux application development.
• Proven experience developing services and applications for embedded Linux environments.
• Knowledge of multithreading, IPC, networking protocols, memory management, and process lifecycles.
• Background in debugging native crashes and complex multi-component system integrations.
• Proficiency with performance profiling and analysis tools such as perf, GDB, or Valgrind.
• Ability to analyze complex CPU, GPU, memory, I/O, latency, and thermal performance metrics.
• Experience integrating complex software modules.
• Familiarity with Linux security models, service management, software packaging, and update mechanisms.
• Experience with embedded system testing methodologies and automated test frameworks.
• A collaborative mindset and comfort working hands-on across engineering disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the automotive industry or with in-vehicle infotainment systems.
• Experience working with hypervisor-based or multi-OS system architectures.
• Familiarity with graphics libraries such as Vulkan or OpenGL.
• Experience with enterprise telemetry and system observability frameworks.
• Hands-on experience bringing up Linux applications on new hardware platforms.

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