Embedded OS Engineer

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Job DetailsJob Location: Teal Drones - SLC, UT 84115Position Summary Teal Drones is looking for a hands-on Embedded OS Engineer to own the Ubuntu-based Linux firmware stack on our MK2 drone platform (Qualcomm QRB5165). You will be the person who builds the OS, keeps it secure, makes it reliable, and ships it through automated CI/CD pipelines. The questions you’ll be asked every day are ones like: Why did that service fail on boot? How do we strip this unnecessary network daemon out of the image without breaking the build graph? What’s the fastest way to test a rootfs post-process change without waiting three hours for a full Yocto rebuild? This is not a role for someone who has only worked at the application layer. We need someone comfortable navigating low-level OS internals, Yocto’s BitBake machinery, systemd unit files, and the realities of headless embedded hardware with no display and limited recovery options. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Yocto / BitBake Build System: Own and maintain the teal-mk2-build repository, including layer configuration, local.conf tuning, and image recipes that produce the qti-ubuntu-robotics-image. Write and maintain .bb recipes and .bbappe...