Company description:
Epiroc is a leading productivity partner for the mining, infrastructure and natural resources industries. Withcutting-edge technology, Epiroc develops and produces innovative drill rigs, rock excavation and constructionequipment, and provides world-class service and consumables. The company was founded in Stockholm,Sweden, and has passionate people supporting and collaborating with customers in more than 150 countries.Learn more at www.epirocgroup.com.
Job description:
Step into a role where you’ll help build mission‑critical embedded systems trusted worldwide in some of the toughest environments. You’ll join a highly skilled engineering team with deep operating‑system expertise and play a key part in shaping the next generation of our embedded platform architecture.
Your Mission
- Develop and maintain custom Linux distributions using the Yocto Project.
- Implement and optimize kernel configurations and device drivers for various hardware platforms.
- Perform system level debugging and root cause analysis for complex issues across hardware and software layers.
- Ensure real-time performance, security hardening, and compliance with industry standards.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers for board bring-up, bootloader customization, and peripheral integration.
- Contribute to system architecture discussions and propose improvements for scalability and maintainability.
- Work with cross-compilation toolchains, build systems, and CI/CD pipelines for embedded environments.
- Develop HIL tests to verify functionality and performance using Pytest.
Profile description:
Your Profile
Technical Requirements
- Expertise in embedded Linux development, including kernel, drivers, and user-space components (full stack).
- Strong experience with the Yocto Project and custom layer development.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for system-level programming and debugging.
- Experienced using oscilloscope, CAN Analyzer and similar hardware tools.
- Solid understanding of bootloaders (U-Boot, GRUB), device trees, and low-level hardware interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, etc.).
- Familiarity with real-time Linux (PREEMPT-RT) and performance tuning.
- Experience with cross-compilation, build systems, and CI/CD for embedded systems.
- Knowledge of security hardening, and secure boot concepts.
- Experience with Pytest.
Nice-to-have skills
- Containerization in embedded environments (Docker, Podman, etc).
- Experience with OTA update frameworks and system recovery mechanisms.
- Comfortable to be hands-on with hardware, soldering etc.
- Deep understanding in CAN networks.
- Knowledge of English is a must and knowledge of Swedish is advantage
- Collaboration skills
- Fluent knowledge of English is a must and knowledge of Swedish language is an advantage
Application and contactsPlease send your application, including CV and personal letter, by creating an account in our recruitment system as soon as possible but no later than 2026-10-15. Please note that, due to the current regulations, we will only consider applications received through our system and not via email or social media.
This position is based in Örebro, Sweden.
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