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cushychicken | 3 months ago

And embedded Linux!

I’ve had a hell of a time finding good embedded Linux devs.

I got insanely lucky to hire two this year.

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ab71e5|3 months ago

What are you looking for? Yocto experience? Experience writing drivers? C/Rust/C++? Hardware / FPGA experience as well?

eikenberry|3 months ago

I have been doing backend/infrastructure coding for years and have been thinking about trying embedded work but am unsure how to break into that area. Curious if you (your industry) would be interested in someone with a lot of Linux/systems experience but not in the embedded space?

azzentys|3 months ago

I'd start from this - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/advanced-embedded-l...

I studied under him at the university. He's also active in open source communities around embedded space.

the_biot|3 months ago

I've had a hell of a time getting into embedded linux professionally. I don't have that specific job experience on my resume, but lots of related open source work, writings, kernel work etc -- I can do this, I just can't prove it very well.

What would you recommend I do? Looking for any more devs?

pabs3|3 months ago

Isn't linking to commits enough to prove it?

pabs3|3 months ago

Is embedded Linux that different to regular Linux?

Edit: I mean, Vizio TVs literally run systemd.

azzentys|3 months ago

A lot of work here is working on vendor provided BSP (which can range from esoteric mix of ancient kernels/bootloaders to top-quality community maintained mainline kernels) to work on your custom board/product.

cushychicken|3 months ago

It’s the “embedded” part that people struggle with.

I can find systemd script gremlins all the live long day.

I can’t find anyone who can write device drivers for custom peripherals, then hook them to user space utilities in a sane way.