Edge Operating System Engineer

We are a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from Space

X, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms. With a world-class business development & leadership team already in place, we are well positioned to capitalize on already overwhelming demand.

Job Overview: We're looking for a Software Engineer focused on Edge Operating Systems to own the low-level software stack powering our NVIDIA Orin NX-based flight computer. In this role, you’ll be responsible for architecting and maintaining our custom NixOS-based deployment and configuration pipeline, building high-reliability Linux systems optimized for flight, and integrating performance-critical applications into a secure, deterministic edge compute environment.

If you thrive at the intersection of embedded systems, Linux internals, and reproducible builds—and want your work to directly shape national defense—this is your role.

• Own image lifecycle for our flight computers, from hardware bring-up to mission deployment.
• Build secure, minimal, reproducible NixOS configurations for NVIDIA Jetson Orin.
• Optimize performance, boot time, and reliability for mission-critical deployment.
• Integrate low-level software components (GStreamer, CUDA, GPU drivers, telemetry, real-time threads) into a cohesive system.
• Work closely with flight software and GNC teams to support real-time, multi-process workloads.
• Develop secure update mechanisms, sandboxing, and observability tools for edge devices in hostile environments.
• Lead debugging and performance analysis efforts across user space, kernel space, and hardware interfaces.
• Contribute to development and CI pipelines for embedded Linux builds and simulation environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 4+ years of experience building or maintaining embedded Linux systems (Yocto, Buildroot, NixOS, or similar).
• Deep familiarity with Linux internals: systemd, udev, bootloaders (e.g., U-Boot), networking, file systems.
• Fluency in shell scripting and programming in Python, Rust, or
  
  C.
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson platforms, including GPU and camera stack integration.
• Experience debugging kernel-space and user-space issues on embedded targets.

• Advanced degree or research experience in operating systems, embedded systems, or security.
• Experience using Nix/NixOS in production for embedded or robotics systems.
• Familiarity with secure boot, TPMs, cryptographic key management, and OTA update systems.
• Knowledge of CUDA, GStreamer, or other high-performance Linux subsystems.
• Prior work on autonomous systems, aerospace, or other safety-critical domains.
• Contributions to open source operating systems or Nix community projects.