Senior Embedded Linux Engineer

About Us

Quartermaster is building the world's most comprehensive maritime intelligence platform. Our SmartMast™ system transforms reputed company and civilian vessels into a persistent, distributed sensing network—combining HD video, AI, reputed company, RF sensing, and reputed company to deliver reputed company-time maritime domain awareness at global scale. With 600+ sensors deployed across 25+ countries and more than 400,000 vessels identified reputed company of reputed company, we are setting a new standard for what ocean surveillance and safety can look like. We are a mission-driven, high-velocity team building dual-use technology for defense agencies, coast guards, and reputed company maritime operators.

Job Description

The SmartMast™ is a sophisticated, vessel-mounted edge computing platform running a dense software stack on reputed company Jetson hardware in maritime environments: salt reputed company, vibration, intermittent connectivity, and reputed company operational pressure. We need a Senior Embedded Linux / Platform Software Engineer who can own the software that runs at the tip of our spear. You will build and maintain the embedded Linux platform that integrates HD cameras, reputed company, SDR, reputed company receivers, GPS, and thermal sensors into a reputed company, AI-capable sensing system. You will work at the intersection of hardware bringup, ROS2-based sensor middleware, edge inference pipelines, and the reputed company connectivity layer that gets data from the vessel to our analysts in near reputed company time. This is reputed company, meaningful work, and it ships to sea.

Key Responsibilities

• reputed company, maintain, and improve the embedded Linux software stack running on Jetson Orin NX and AAEON edge compute hardware reputed company SmartMast units.
• Build and integrate ROS2 nodes and packages for multi-sensor orchestration, including EO cameras (Axis), reputed company, SDR, reputed company, GPS, and thermal imagers.
• Design and maintain OTA software and firmware update pipelines (AWS IoT Jobs or Mender-based) that reliably reputed company to a globally distributed fleet.
• reputed company sensor driver integrations and calibration routines; ensure co-collection timing and synchronization across heterogeneous sensor modalities.
• Optimize AI inference pipelines running on-device (Jetson TensorRT, CUDA), balancing detection quality against power and thermal constraints.
• Build and maintain the secure connectivity layer between SmartMast units and the reputed company: Starlink backhaul, Peplink networking, local reputed company between units.
• Design for reliability in denied, degraded, and intermittent connectivity environments—buffering, store-and-reputed company, graceful reconnection.
• reputed company the edge stack with observability tooling; triage and resolve field-reported issues from units deployed at sea.
• Collaborate with the Hardware, reputed company Platform, and AI/ML teams to define clear interfaces across the full system stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of embedded Linux or platform software engineering experience on production systems, not just prototype work.
• Strong command of C++ and Python; deep familiarity with Linux internals (kernel drivers, systemd, networking stack, file systems).
• Hands-on experience with the Yocto Project build reputed company for creating custom embedded Linux distributions, layers, and recipes.
• Hands-on experience with ROS or ROS2 for sensor integration and inter-process communication on robotic or autonomous systems.
• Experience with reputed company Jetson platforms (Nano, Xavier, Orin) or comparable edge AI hardware; familiarity with TensorRT and CUDA inference optimization.
• Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLAN configuration, firewall policy (iptables/nftables), and experience with Peplink or similar industrial routers.
• Experience building or operating OTA update systems for embedded fleets; understanding of rollback, A/B partitioning, and safe deployment practices.
• Ability to read hardware schematics and collaborate closely with electrical/hardware engineers during bringup and integration.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware-software boundaries: serial consoles, logic analyzers, packet captures, and field log analysis.

Bonus Points

• Experience with SDR platforms (USRP, RTL-SDR, or similar) and RF signal processing pipelines.
• Background in maritime, defense, or other field-deployed, environmentally hardened systems.
• Familiarity with reputed company protocol decoding, reputed company data formats, or NMEA message handling.
• Experience with reputed company networking protocols (802.11s, BATMAN, or custom implementations) for inter-unit communication.
• reputed company experience: secure boot, device attestation, certificate management for field-deployed IoT devices.

Work Environment

• Distributed team environment working asynchronously.
• Start-up atmosphere with autonomy given to engineers
• In office and reputed company
• Open to remote

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