Senior Embedded Linux OS Engineer
Pubblicato il 05-09-2026 - Nabu Casa in Roma
About Nabu Casa
Nabu Casa is the organisation behind Home Assistant, the world's largest free and open-source smart home platform used by over two million households.
Founded to ensure the sustainability of the project, Nabu Casa partners with the Open Home Foundation to protect and promote open-source initiatives. Its guiding principles—privacy, choice, and sustainability—are embedded in everything it does, from architecture to community engagement.
Nabu Casa is a profitable company with no external investors. Its funding comes directly from users who subscribe to Home Assistant Cloud and purchase Home Assistant hardware, ensuring that employees and users are its only stakeholders.
The Role
As a Senior Embedded Linux OS Engineer, you will be the 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 that runs Home Assistant OS and contributes engineering effort to keep those devices reliable, performant, secure, and well‑supported throughout their lifecycle.
Working at the boundary between hardware and software, you will ensure that Home Assistant OS runs reliably on Nabu Casa hardware platforms. You will 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 will be the primary technical owner for embedded Linux enablement within the Hardware Team. This includes Buildroot‑based platform development, board support packages, bootloader configuration, hardware bring‑up, platform debugging, and long‑term maintainability.
This is a senior, hands‑on engineering role requiring deep embedded Linux expertise and the ability to independently drive complex technical work from investigation throu