Embedded Linux Engineer (Remote)

Dojo Five is excited to announce an opportunity for a remote Embedded Linux Engineer, with a passion for pushing boundaries and contributing to cutting-edge projects. Your role will see you orchestrating the lifecycle of firmware development projects, including programming, code reviews, and testing. Your unique expertise will be paramount in driving our projects to success and upholding the highest industry quality standards.

If you have Yocto and Buildroot experience - and your skillset aligns with the following - we hope you'll apply!

Dojo Five Responsibilities

  • Participate in company meetings and activities as requested.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring to junior engineers.
  • Participate in branding outreach and marketing activities with expected deliverables annually.
  • Participate in recruitment activities, including group interviews and technical review, as requested or at least once annually
  • Participate in internal training programs and provide suggestions for improvement
  • Offer suggestions to improve company processes
  • Adhere to company policies and procedures.
  • Manage work time independently

Customer Responsibilities (depending on the client)

  • Lead projects, including work breakdown, architectural discussion and guidance.
  • Develop, program, review, and test firmware and electronics as requested.
  • Maintain build systems, code repositories, and documentation
  • Maintain customer communication and prioritize quick responses 
  • Develop and inform product development
  • Light soldering as requested.
  • Travel < 10% of the time to client meetings as requested.
  • Manage work time independently with some oversight from management.
  • Record time and activities accurately in time tracking software.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

  • At least 5 years of Embedded Linux (Yocto and Buildroot) experience -- this is a must
  • High-level proficiency at C and C++
  • Experience writing drivers in a bare metal environment for a variety of applications
  • Strong communicator, experience leading discussions with clients translating business needs to requirements
  • Experience using testing tools for embedded (Ceedling, Google Test, CppUTest, etc)
  • Experience using Git, unit testing, automated builds, and other modern embedded workflow elements
  • Able to read and understand schematics and debug hardware-level issues

Nice to Haves: 

  • C++ for embedded
  • Cortex-A or Cortex-M
  • Embedded Security

Core Competencies

Living Our Values

  • Demonstrates balance between learning depth and breadth. Shares learning with others.
  • Effectively communicates good and bad news with team and with client. Recognizes misaligned expectations and is able to quickly align.
  • Demonstrates a deep empathy with client and team needs
  • Brings ideas to improve the happiness of others and helps champion their implementation.

Mastery of Job Skills

  • Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
  • Increasing expertise and capability to work independently while still seeking guidance for new or unfamiliar projects or assignments.

Level of Influence

  • Influence is at the team level, providing support and leadership for a single project and the team that goes with it

Benefits

Life-Work Balance

You read that right–“Life” first then “Work”. Dojo Five is a remote-first company where the team works hard, but we know that balancing life with work is important to feeling great about what you do. That is why we are proud to offer the following benefits:

  • We are a mostly-distributed team. Working remotely is part of our culture.
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life - company pays 75% of the cost.
  • Internal focus on training and development - you WILL learn a LOT here.
  • Work with a diverse group of firmware professionals
  • Offsites and team connection opportunities annually

Our pay ranges are based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

We currently hire in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio

Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visa applicants at this time.

Dojo Five is an equal opportunity employer.

Salary range: $114,000 - $133,000

* Disclaimer: Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the company and/or client. 

“Dojo” translates to “place of the way” and represents an environment for immersive learning.We value life-work balanceYou read that right–“Life” first then “Work”. Dojo Five is a remote-first company where the team works hard, but we know that balancing life with work is important to feeling great about what you do. We know that you’ll perform better when you know that you have the space in your life for quality time for yourself, your family, and to deal with the challenges that life throws at you.We want you to grow with usOur teammates love it here, but we won’t claim nirvana—there’s always work to be done in any company to make it a better place to work, and that’s every bit as true for us. We encourage learning and taking on new challenges and we’ll be there to support you every step of the way.At Dojo Five, our team members stick around. In the last 5 years, our turnover rate has averaged less than 5% per year! In a world where the average employee turnover rate across industries is a staggering 57.3%, that should tell you something.We’re not trying to convince you that your job at Dojo Five will be the last job you ever have, but we make it our job to make sure that Dojo Five will be one of the more memorable stops on your career journey.Our company values drive what we do with the express goal of modernizing embedded system development practices. It’s not just a matter of building a project and getting it running. It’s doing it in a way that sets an example of disciplined engineering for anyone who needs to work with that project in the future—long after they’ve worked with us. Dojo Five seeks individuals with a willingness to lead—to guide our customers and peers in a way that earns their trust. In doing so, it affords us the opportunity to share our vision, values, and best practices with like-minded individuals and ultimately the customers we work for.

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