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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.\nWhat You’ll Do\nUse your leadership to take our embedded lab to the next level.\nYou 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 at RTI. You work with our OS and tools partners as we discover issues with their toolchains and operating systems. \nYou 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. \nYou ensure high availability of the embedded systems by enabling monitoring of the lab and automation. \nYou plan out and execute upgrades to the embedded lab.\nYou partner closely with IT and other teams as part of a cross departmental super-group.\nWhat We’re Looking For \nYou have experience with hardware setup.\nPassion 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\nFamiliar with system generation and configuration, for example:\ncreating and configuring bootloaders\nbuilding and deploying Yocto images\ncustomizing system startup routines\nYou have a good grasp of the fundamentals of Linux and have day-to-day knowledge.\nAbility to work successfully in a highly distributed team.\n 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.*\nDon’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. Learn more about our commitment to our workforce, here!\nNice To Have \nYou 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.\nYou have experience with infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt\nYou are familiar with shell scripting. We currently use python, tcl, expect, and some perl. \nYou have basic C programming knowledge, and you are familiar with makefiles.\nWhat We Offer You \nFlexible working schedule. \nOnsite working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.\nFlexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus,” an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.\nAnnual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards. \nWe recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.\nHow is life at RTI\nWe have been certified as a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years both in Spain and the US. In addition, we were listed as one of theBest Companies for Women to Advance. \nWe live and work by ourcore values, which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching your potential. Our motto is “Enjoy the journey, ” above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.\nWe are defined by our “Working as One” culture and truly care about team’s interaction. That is why we plan trips for teams to get together in person, enjoy fun team-building activities and events, and feel more connected.\nWhat We Do \nReal-Time Innovations (RTI) is the data-streaming company for intelligent distributed systems. RTI Connext® software is the critical nervous system for over 2,000 designs across Aerospace and Defense, MedTech, Automotive, and Robotics. Connext is the only real-time data streaming platform that can both control demanding physical systems and integrate them with cloud applications. RTI helps organizations develop, deploy, and scale intelligence and physical AI from edge to cloud, faster. RTI Runs a Smarter World™. Learn more at www.rti.com.\nRTI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.\nThe compensation for this role is $115,000 - $135,000 in Sunnyvale, California. The salary range displayed on this job posting reflects a minimum and maximum target. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. 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