Senior Software Engineer - Linux

About the Role

Origin Autonomy is looking for a versatile, hands-on software engineer to join our growing team. You will work across embedded Linux systems, networking stacks, robotic middleware, and cloud-connected services. This role demands strong fundamentals, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly not just familiarity with buzzwords.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve robot boot-up sequences and service orchestration to ensure reliable system bring-up.
• Configure and debug Linux networking TCP/IP stack, HTTP, iptables, ARP, DHCP, DNS for robot-to-cloud and inter-robot communication.
• Help build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and containerized workflows to ship software to robots.
• Work with Docker-based deployment and runtime environments on robot and cloud infrastructure.
• Write and maintain bash scripts and tooling for fleet management and diagnostics.
• Collaborate closely with robotics, perception, and application teams to integrate platform capabilities.
• Follow and help improve best practices around Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review.
• Take ownership of well-scoped components debug issues end-to-end, ship fixes, and iterate quickly.

Must haves

• Linux systems programming in C

• File I/O read, write, seek, memory-mapped files
• Multi-threading pthreads, mutexes, condition variables, thread safety

• Socket communication TCP/UDP sockets, select/poll/epoll

• Basic data structures & algorithms stack, heap, queue, linked list
• General comprehension ability reading technical manuals, datasheets, and RFCs; searching documentation independently
• SOLID principles

• Python scripting

• Classes definition, instantiation, inheritance
• Dunder methods understanding and implementing double-underscore methods
• Functions positional and keyword arguments, args/kwargs, return values
• Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) implications for threading vs. multiprocessing

• File I/O open/read/write/close, context managers (with), text vs. binary modes

• Bash scripting

• Usage of shebang
• if / elif / else test expressions, comparison operators, combining with && and  
• case / esac pattern-matching switch construct
• File testing [ -f ], [ -d ], [ -e ], [ -r/-w/-x ] and practical use in scripts

• Function definition and call function foo() {}, local variables, return codes

• Git CLI usage, branching, merging, rebasing, conflict resolution
• Standard UML diagrams flowchart, sequence diagram, deployment diagram
• Windowless text editor basic usability in at least one of: vim, nano, or equivalent

Nice to Have (7/10 or better)

1. C++ programming C++17, OOP, templates, STL, RAII
2. Common network protocols DHCP, ARP, TCP, UDP, DNS
3. Network configuration routers, switches, VLANs, subnetting
4. Server client application architecture roles of back-end and front-end
5. P2P vs. centralised communication DDS vs. MQTT, trade-offs and use cases
6. Database management relational (SQL) vs. NoSQL, schema design, basic queries
7. Network security checksums (CRC, MD5, SHA), public-key encryption, digital signatures
8. ROS2 framework pub/sub, services, actions, lifecycle nodes, DDS transport
9. CMake build system targets, find_package, CTest integration
10. Docker writing Dockerfiles, docker-compose, remote image registry management

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