Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Systems) - CTBC at Continental

Your tasks As a member of the Digital & Data Solutions Embedded Software team (DDS eSW) within ContiTech, you will anchor the Timișoara engineering presence and take technical co-ownership of the embedded Linux platform powering our industrial monitoring devices. Our devices run Yocto-based embedded Linux on custom hardware, communicate via MQTT to AWS IoT Core, and ship to customers in mining and conveying applications across four continents. Your primary technical mission is the Linux platform: Yocto build system, BSP, kernel and driver integration, and OTA update pipeline. You absorb the existing platform knowledge, become a co-owner of the stack, and ensure it keeps moving when other platform engineers are unavailable. Beyond the technical scope, you are the on-site anchor. The team lead is remote. You receive a HIL rig template and BOM from the DDS embedded team, assemble it from parts and our PCBs, commission it, and walk local plant management through sign-off. You run stand-ups, coordinate with ContiTech local facilities, and onboard engineers as the team grows. This is a founding position — you build the Timișoara structure, not step into one. The engineering team provides the starting templates; your job is to make them run on-site. You • Maintain and extend the Yocto/OpenEmbedded build system; write .bb recipes; manage the SDK and layer structure • Own the OTA update pipeline (Mender/SWUpdate) and ensure the main branch is always releasable • Configure the Linux kernel, device tree, and driver integration for custom hardware; debug the boot chain • Assemble the HIL rig from the DDS-supplied BOM and PCBs; commission it; walk plant management through sign-off; own the on-device regression infrastructure thereafter • Keep the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline green and dependencies current • Write Python tooling for build automation, device provisioning, test scripts, and SBOM tooling • Receive algorithm specifications from the engineering team; implement, unit-test, and integrate them into the platform • Run stand-ups; coordinate with ContiTech local facilities (lab, IT, HR); onboard colleagues; maintain the team cadence while the DDS lead is remote