Senior Embedded Linux OS Engineer (America)

About Nabu Casa Nabu Casa https://www.nabucasa.com is the organisation behind Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io, the world's largest free and open-source smart home platform used by over two million households. We were founded to ensure the project's sustainability, and in 2024, we partnered with the Open Home Foundation to protect and promote a wide range of open-source initiatives. Our guiding principles—privacy, choice, and sustainability—are embedded in everything we do, from our architecture to our community. We are a profitable company with no external investors. Our funding comes directly from users who subscribe to Home Assistant Cloud https://www.home-assistant.io/cloud/ and purchase Home Assistant hardware, ensuring our only stakeholders are our employees and our users. We also support other open-source projects, including those focused on hardware, standards, and voice technology. The Role As a Senior Embedded Linux OS Engineer, you are Nabu Casa's primary embedded Linux engineer within the Hardware Team, responsible for enabling, maintaining, and improving Home Assistant OS support across Nabu Casa hardware products. Home Assistant OS is an open-source project stewarded by the Open Home Foundation. Nabu Casa develops and ships hardware products that run Home Assistant OS and contributes engineering effort to ensure those devices remain reliable, performant, secure, and well-supported throughout their lifecycle. Working at the boundary between hardware and software, you help ensure Home Assistant OS runs reliably on Nabu Casa hardware platforms. You collaborate closely with the Hardware Team, Home Assistant OS contributors, and the Open Home Foundation to support existing devices, improve platform reliability, and enable new hardware platforms. You are the primary technical owner for embedded Linux enablement within the Hardware Team. This includes Buildroot-based platform development, board support packages, bootloader configuration, hardware