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# Linux Systems Engineer

- **Company:** 9elements GmbH
- **Location:** Bochum, Germany (Remote available)
- **Salary:** €45,000.0 - €85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** UClibc (C Standard Library), Software Debugging, Linux, Firmware, Hypervisor, Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Linux Kernel, Open Source Technology, Xen Servers, Yocto, Bare Metal
- **Published:** June 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9fef88d5be50245d

## About the Role

(Embedded) Linux is your home turf - You're comfortable building, debugging and shipping Linux systems, from the kernel down to drivers and up through userspace, and you're not afraid to read source code (or write it).

 - You care about security - You think about threat models, attack surfaces and trust boundaries, and you want to make systems that are secure by design instead of secure by hope.
 - Being able to deep dive into technical issues - You love code and love debugging issues down to the core (which can be hardware - sometimes).
 - You're fluent in English - English is our business language, internal and external and you should be able to communicate with it.
 - You like working with Open-Source - sounds obvious but working with the open-source communities can be challenging sometimes. You have to be able to find the best possible solutions for our customers and the community.
 - Be engaged - At 9elements we help each other. Our mission is big: We transform the firmware industry - it takes dedication and team effort to tear down this ecosystem and build it up from scratch again.

Assets

 * Linux Kernel Development

 - Hypervisor experience - You've worked with KVM, Xen, or smaller research hypervisors and understand virtualization from the bare metal up? We'd love to hear from you.
 * Hands-on experience with TPMs, secure boot, measured boot or remote attestation.
 * Yocto, Buildroot or custom distro experience for embedded targets.

 - Low-level languages are your friends - C is a given, Rust is a plus.



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