Northlight Studios
Verified
Linux / OpenWrt Engineer
- Remote
- Full Time
- 2 openings
The essentials
- Experience4 Years
- Career levelNon-Managerial
- ShiftMorning Shift
- EducationBachelor's Degree
What you’ll be doing
We’re hiring two embedded Linux / OpenWRT engineers to work on firmware for a networking platform.
Fully remote. Location/time zone: GMT to GMT+4 (UTC+0 to UTC+4), including Dubai/Gulf, the Middle East, Europe, the UK, and Africa. Dubai preferred. Candidates based in the US/Americas cannot be considered.
Salary: Starting at $6,000+/month, paid monthly.
Responsibilities
Fully remote. Location/time zone: GMT to GMT+4 (UTC+0 to UTC+4), including Dubai/Gulf, the Middle East, Europe, the UK, and Africa. Dubai preferred. Candidates based in the US/Americas cannot be considered.
Salary: Starting at $6,000+/month, paid monthly.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain OpenWRT firmware, including packages, kernel configuration, and system integration.
- Own the router-image build pipeline, including per-SKU hardware variants.
- Write device-side agents in Go for metrics, configuration reconciliation, and secure mTLS communications.
- Design on-router services for VPN/cellular bonding, modem state, and OTA updates.
- Integrate cellular modems using AT commands for signal metrics, bearer setup, and diagnostics.
- Debug modem firmware, wireless drivers, PPP/QMI/MBIM, and netlink issues.
- Own kernel upgrades and driver patches, and contribute upstream.
What we’re looking for
Required skills
Preferred
- Strong embedded Linux experience.
- OpenWRT, including procd, netlink, and nftables.
- Strong Go experience for device daemons, or strong C experience.
- Confident shell scripting with BusyBox ash.
- Experience with cellular modems, AT commands, QMI/MBIM, and LTE/5G metrics.
- Strong networking knowledge covering routing, VPN, NAT, and DNS.
- Systems and architecture thinking with end-to-end ownership.
Preferred
- Upstream OpenWRT/LEDE contributions.
- Wi-Fi or modem middleware experience.
- Kernel development experience.
- Rust experience.
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Northlight Studios
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