As an Embedded Linux Field Engineer, you will enhance an embedded Linux SDK, engage with customers, improve documentation, and build testing frameworks.
About the job
Nordic Semiconductor is seeking an Embedded Linux Field Engineer to develop our embedded Linux SDK written in Rust. You'll be working with cutting-edge hardware companies as they integrate for the first time or add support for newly built features. Our engineering culture provides opportunities to contribute to as many areas of our technology stack as you're interested in.
You will be joining the Memfault team within Nordic Semiconductor.
Key responsibilities
Qualifications and skills
Personal Skills
Working for Nordic
Working for Nordic Semiconductor, you will be inspired and supported to develop yourself. Our teams enjoy a professional and informal working environment. We value and encourage the continuous development of skills and expertise to the highest levels. We are proud of our Norwegian heritage, our highly skilled international workforce, world-leading innovation, and professional brilliance. We offer a variety of tasks and projects, and the possibility to work alongside some of the world's most renowned experts within their field. We encourage our employees to question the established and innovate while expecting professionalism, commitment, and the will to learn.
Benefits
Practical details
Please note that this position might be subject to a background check.
Nordic Semiconductor is seeking an Embedded Linux Field Engineer to develop our embedded Linux SDK written in Rust. You'll be working with cutting-edge hardware companies as they integrate for the first time or add support for newly built features. Our engineering culture provides opportunities to contribute to as many areas of our technology stack as you're interested in.
You will be joining the Memfault team within Nordic Semiconductor.
Key responsibilities
- Work with sales and customer success teams to design solutions for prospects and customers to solve real-world business problems.
- Improve the Linux SDK to work on every major embedded Linux distribution across IoT devices
- Engage directly with firmware engineers at cutting-edge hardware companies to integrate the platform
- Build out and improve reference examples, SDK documentation, and automated tests
- Ship code early and often to customers, seeing devices in the wild running your code
Qualifications and skills
- 3+ years of experience writing Rust/C/C++ code on embedded Linux devices, typically Arm CPUs
- Well-versed in Yocto or Buildroot
- Great communicator, credible with technical buyers, and clear with business stakeholders
- Organized, efficient, and passionate about automated testing and CI/CD
Personal Skills
- Love teaching and solving problems, eager to have a major impact on product, business, and culture
- Caring and kind: other people do better when they work with you
- Strong communicator, both conversationally and in written form
- Excited about contributing across firmware, operating systems, web, and distributed systems
Working for Nordic
Working for Nordic Semiconductor, you will be inspired and supported to develop yourself. Our teams enjoy a professional and informal working environment. We value and encourage the continuous development of skills and expertise to the highest levels. We are proud of our Norwegian heritage, our highly skilled international workforce, world-leading innovation, and professional brilliance. We offer a variety of tasks and projects, and the possibility to work alongside some of the world's most renowned experts within their field. We encourage our employees to question the established and innovate while expecting professionalism, commitment, and the will to learn.
Benefits
- The salary range for this role is (110.000 - 187.000 USD). Exact salary is determined by skills, qualifications, and experience.
- We also offer an annual discretionary bonus and long-term incentive plan
- Medical and Dental benefits. 100% employer paid option for employees.
- Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account
- Other voluntary benefits available, like disability and life insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Generous family-friendly leave policies for vacation, personal time, sick time, and parental leave
- Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
Practical details
- Location: Boston, United States
Please note that this position might be subject to a background check.
Top Skills
Rust,C,C++,Yocto,Buildroot
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