{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"cbf99d62f446bdc0c0e18fff","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cbf99d62f446bdc0c0e18fff","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cbf99d62f446bdc0c0e18fff","title":"Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux","description":"Company Overview\nMaven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.\nWe are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.\nRole Description\nWe are looking to recruit an exceptional Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux to help build the foundational real-time Linux platform powering the brains of our autonomous robotics systems. This is a critical role for developing high-performance, GPU-accelerated compute platforms tailored to robotics and machine learning workloads.\nIn this role you will:\nDesign, adapt, and integrate POSIX-compliant systems for advanced robotics and machine learning (ML) applications.\nDevelop the framework for integration of controls, machine learning and supporting algorithms with real-time tasks.\nCollaborate with Controls and Machine Learning engineers to develop and optimize high performance autonomous systems.\nDevelop and maintain drivers for integration with real-time robotic middleware.\nBuild tools to monitor, verify and optimize system performance, ensuring reliable and deterministic behavior.\nContribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.\nWork with functional safety engineers to support standards compliance, audit readiness, and traceability.\nDevelop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.\nTackle complex, real-world challenges alongside a multidisciplinary team of experts.\nQualifications\nMust-have:\nMS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.\nProduction experience with bringup and configuration of Linux PREEMPT_RT and similar operating systems (e.g. QNX).\nStrong understanding of Linux device trees, scheduling and memory management.\nExperience with multicore ARM SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and message passing.\nProficiency in C and C++\nExperience with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).\nFamiliarity with container technologies, container runtimes and related concepts (Eg. Docker, Containerd, Overlayfs).\nUnderstanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)\nSelf-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.\nProactive, self-driven mindset with a strong ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced startup environment.\nNice-to-have:\nFamiliarity with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, CANOpen).\nKnowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.\nProficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, Golang).\nExpertise with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).\nExperience with Hypervisors (e.g. QNX Hypervisor, Jailhouse, Xen).\nUnderstanding of container orchestration systems and tools (Eg. Kubernetes).","company":"Maven Robotics","rawCompany":"maven robotics","city":"Alameda","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-06T13:34:30.833Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux","description":"Company Overview\nMaven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.\nWe are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.\nRole Description\nWe are looking to recruit an exceptional Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux to help build the foundational real-time Linux platform powering the brains of our autonomous robotics systems. This is a critical role for developing high-performance, GPU-accelerated compute platforms tailored to robotics and machine learning workloads.\nIn this role you will:\nDesign, adapt, and integrate POSIX-compliant systems for advanced robotics and machine learning (ML) applications.\nDevelop the framework for integration of controls, machine learning and supporting algorithms with real-time tasks.\nCollaborate with Controls and Machine Learning engineers to develop and optimize high performance autonomous systems.\nDevelop and maintain drivers for integration with real-time robotic middleware.\nBuild tools to monitor, verify and optimize system performance, ensuring reliable and deterministic behavior.\nContribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.\nWork with functional safety engineers to support standards compliance, audit readiness, and traceability.\nDevelop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.\nTackle complex, real-world challenges alongside a multidisciplinary team of experts.\nQualifications\nMust-have:\nMS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.\nProduction experience with bringup and configuration of Linux PREEMPT_RT and similar operating systems (e.g. QNX).\nStrong understanding of Linux device trees, scheduling and memory management.\nExperience with multicore ARM SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and message passing.\nProficiency in C and C++\nExperience with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).\nFamiliarity with container technologies, container runtimes and related concepts (Eg. Docker, Containerd, Overlayfs).\nUnderstanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)\nSelf-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.\nProactive, self-driven mindset with a strong ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced startup environment.\nNice-to-have:\nFamiliarity with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, CANOpen).\nKnowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.\nProficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, Golang).\nExpertise with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).\nExperience with Hypervisors (e.g. QNX Hypervisor, Jailhouse, Xen).\nUnderstanding of container orchestration systems and tools (Eg. 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