Embedded Device Lab Administrator

As our Embedded Device Lab Administrator, you will be part of a team of experts building a secure real-time middleware platform with extreme performance and scalability. As part of our distributed RTI Platform Team, your role is critical in enabling and maintaining our products across various platforms and systems. This position is based at our Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters and requires you to work onsite
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• Use your leadership to take our embedded lab to the next level.
• You are responsible to bring-up and maintain the embedded systems in our lab at Sunnyvale HQ. We currently support over 70 different architectures. The work involves creating and configuring bootloaders, building and configuring (embedded) kernels involving a wide range of RTOS, and integration into the automation frameworks  work with our OS and tools partners as we discover issues with their tool chains and operating systems.
• You support your fellow platform team members, and the larger RTI development team with your platform expertise. You help debug platform specific issues. In some cases this may require adjustments to the embedded system. In other cases, you evolve the automation infrastructure.
• You ensure high availability of the embedded systems by enabling monitoring of the lab and automation.
• You plan out and execute upgrades to the embedded lab.
• You partner closely with IT and other teams as part of a cross departmental super-group.
• You have experience with hardware setup.
• Passion for operating systems and embedded systems. Experience creating and configuring operating systems and kernels (e.g., QNX, VxWorks, Integrity, LynxOS) a plus. We don’t expect you to already know all the RTOS we currently support but you should have some experience with embedded systems (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ARM Linux). In addition, you have strong Unix system administration skills
• Familiar with system generation and configuration, for example:
• creating and configuring bootloaders
• building and deploying Yocto images
• customizing system startup routines
• You have a good grasp of the fundamentals of Linux and have day-to-day knowledge.
• Ability to work successfully in a highly distributed team.
• US Person requirement
  * Due to export-control regulations, we can only consider “US persons” for this role. A “US person” is defined by federal law as a US citizen, lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee, or asylee. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship or transfer.*

Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a fair and inclusive workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all qualifications in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be just the right candidate for this or another one of our open roles.
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• You have solid experience with Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOS IPv4 network configuration, solid understanding of host routing tables, some experience with subnets and VLANs. Extra credit for experience with 802.1q VLAN tagging, IPv6 and multicast.
• You have experience with infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt
• You are familiar with shell scripting. We currently use python, tcl, expect, and some perl.
• You have basic C programming knowledge, and you are familiar with makefiles.

• Hybrid working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
• Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards.
• We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career…