Atom Computing
Senior Embedded Platform Engineer
$165K–$200K
Boulder, Colorado · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of post-degree professional experience maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
About the job
Maintains and improves the infrastructure and workflows that manage embedded systems supporting Atom Computing’s quantum computers.
What you'll do
- Design over-the-air update and configuration procedures and automate management of embedded devices.
- Develop security primitives for on-premise hardware and embedded devices in consultation with security teams.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, performance metrics, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment efficiency.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of post-degree professional experience maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
- Experience with on-premise hardware services, OTA updates and secure device update protocols, and Yocto Linux or Linux distribution, kernel module, or device driver compilation.
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with high-performance embedded systems form factors and interconnect standards such as MicroTCA, VPX/OpenVPX, ATCA, CompactPCI Serial, or PXIe.
- Experience with performance tuning, observability, and infrastructure tools such as Proxmox VE, Docker, Podman, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kubernetes.
Pay
USD 165,000–200,000 per-year base salary
Tools
MicroTCA, VPX/OpenVPX, Proxmox VE, Docker, Podman, Yocto linux, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
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