Edge Operating System Engineer

About the Company

Singularity Defense Corp. is a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms.

Responsibilities

• Own image lifecycle for flight computers, from hardware bring-up to mission deployment
• Build secure, minimal, reproducible NixOS configurations for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX
• Optimize performance, boot time, and reliability for mission-critical deployments
• Integrate low-level software components including GStreamer, CUDA, GPU drivers, and telemetry
• Work closely with flight software and GNC teams to support real-time, multi-process workloads
• Develop secure update mechanisms, sandboxing, and observability tools for edge devices
• Lead debugging and performance analysis across user space, kernel space, and hardware interfaces
• Contribute to devops and CI pipelines for embedded Linux builds and simulation environments

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience building or maintaining embedded Linux systems (Yocto, Buildroot, NixOS, or similar)
• Deep familiarity with Linux internals: systemd, udev, bootloaders, networking, and filesystems
• Fluency in shell scripting and programming in Python, Rust, or C
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson platforms, including GPU and camera stack integration
• Experience debugging kernel-space and user-space issues on embedded targets
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylum seeker to comply with ITAR

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree or research experience in operating systems, embedded systems, or security
• Experience using Nix/NixOS in production for embedded or robotics systems
• Familiarity with secure boot, TPMs, cryptographic key management, and OTA update systems
• Knowledge of CUDA, GStreamer, or other high-performance Linux subsystems
• Prior work on autonomous systems, aerospace, or other safety-critical domains
• Contributions to open source operating systems or Nix community projects