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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain BSPs for NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules and custom carrier boards, including board bring-up, device trees, pinmux, and peripheral enablement.
- Customize and maintain boot chains, firmware, UEFI, OS loaders, kernel or QNX microkernel configurations, kernel modules, resource managers, and drivers.
- Build reproducible, CI-driven Linux and QNX OS images and tune them for real-time and low-latency performance.
- Own OS lifecycle tooling, including JetPack and NVIDIA BSP upgrades, A/B OTA updates, secure boot, disk encryption, fleet flashing, and provisioning.
- Triage and document lab and field issues such as boot failures, kernel panics, driver regressions, and thermal throttling.
- Define hardware requirements, review schematics and layouts, and support compute hardware bring-up from prototype through production.
- Collaborate with hardware, robot software, QA, validation, and manufacturing teams on platform quality, testing, code reviews, and design reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience building, debugging, and shipping embedded systems using Linux and/or QNX.
- Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson, including Thor or Orin, JetPack, flashing, and carrier-board customization.
- Strong Linux kernel configuration, device-tree, driver-development, debugging, upgrade, and backporting skills.
- Experience with Yocto, Buildroot, or a comparable image-build system.
- Proficiency in C and C++, plus working knowledge of Python or Bash for tooling and Git.
- Strong hardware-debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and serial debugging.
- Ability to interpret system schematics and hardware datasheets, with knowledge of CAN, EtherCAT, and Ethernet.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux security fundamentals such as secure boot, PKI, and hardware key storage.
- Experience with technical specifications and strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Preferred experience with QNX Neutrino, SDP, BSP development, resource managers, PREEMPT_RT, robotics or other high-performance real-time systems.
- Preferred experience with CUDA, TensorRT, containers on Jetson, OTA frameworks such as RAUC, SWUpdate, or Mender, fleet provisioning, ROS 2, DDS, ISO 26262, and upstream kernel or open-source BSP contributions.
Benefits
- Direct-hire position.
- Equal employment opportunity is provided without discrimination or harassment based on legally protected characteristics.
- The role involves prolonged desk and computer work, occasional lifting of up to 15 pounds, and the ability to read screens and communicate.
About Apptronik
Apptronik designs and manufactures AI-enabled humanoid robots, led by its Apollo platform, to automate tasks alongside people in manufacturing and logistics, with potential use in healthcare and homes. The privately held company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and grew out of the University of Texas at Austin’s Human Centered Robotics Lab; its team previously worked on NASA’s Valkyrie robot. Apptronik’s business model centers on selling robots and the software and services needed to deploy them in industrial environments.