Senior embedded Linux engineer (Jetson, robotics)

Department: Robotics

Location: Abu Dhabi

Employment Type: FullTime

Analog builds robots that work in the real world, deployed for governments and enterprises and tested right here in our office. Every one of them runs on a computer inside its body. We need someone to own that computer: the operating system, the drivers, the updates, and the performance on a small board. If you’ve ever built a robot on top of an NVIDIA Jetson, this is a rare chance to do it at the heart of a company building something that doesn’t exist yet.

What we’re looking for, and why

Someone who loves the layer between hardware and software. Our robotics engineers are building grasping, navigation and more, and all of it depends on a solid foundation underneath. We need a senior person who knows that foundation inside out, so everyone else can build on it with confidence.

What you’ll be working on

• Owning the full Linux operating system on the robot’s onboard compute, built on NVIDIA Jetson

• Bringing up and maintaining the sensors: GMSL2 / V4L2, Ethernet LiDAR and audio drivers

• Building reproducible Linux images and getting OTA updates safely onto deployed robots

• Managing containers, networking and firewall on the robot

• Profiling and squeezing performance out of limited compute (CPU, GPU, memory, bandwidth, power)

• Setting up system logging on the robot, so when something breaks in the field we can see exactly what happened and fix it fast

What makes this role different

You’re not tuning a demo board on a bench. Your work runs on real robots, in the field and down the hall, and when a camera driver breaks, you’ll see it on a robot the same day. Engineering here is flat, so you’ll work directly with the robotics engineers who depend on your platform, with no layers in between.

Skills we need

• 5+ years in embedded Linux, including NVIDIA Jetson (JetPack, L4T)

• Hands-on with GMSL2 / V4L2 / Argus camera pipelines

• Working with and debugging a vendor BSP (device tree, kernel drivers)

• Ethernet LiDAR and audio drivers

• Reproducible Linux images, networking and firewall

• Containers and managing them on the robot

• OTA updates for deployed devices

• Resource budgeting, benchmarking and profiling (Nsight, tegrastats)

• ROS 2 / DDS, C++, Python

Nice to have:

• Model optimisation for Jetson (TensorRT, quantisation, CUDA)

• Yocto or custom Ubuntu builds, secure boot, embedded security

• Robotics or automotive sensor platforms

What we’re not looking for

• Microcontroller or firmware-only engineers; this role is Linux-based

• Generic embedded or IoT engineers without Jetson-class boards and sensor pipeline experience

• Sysadmin or IT profiles; this is low-level, hands-on engineering

• Anyone who wants to manage rather than build