Linux System Administrator in San Francisco

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities. We collaborate with internal and external partners in a high-leverage environment that enables us to spend a majority of our time developing solutions that are unique to our hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Learn what it's like to be a part of a world-class embedded software team building a first-of-its-kind product in a startup environment Responsible for system design and architecture Develop low-level driver and framework software in C and C++ Develop device-focused infrastructure software in Python Debug issues at the interface between hardware and software Optimize software for better performance and lower power consumption Collaborate in the software engineering process with documentation, testing, and code review Essential Qualifications 8+ years of experience in system software engineering and embedded platf

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities.Our team collaborates with internal and external partners to develop unique solutions using cutting edge hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing embedded software team in a startup environment Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex hardware/software integration issues Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders Own system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across multiple products Drive execution of low-level driver and framework software development in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems Oversee integration between hardware and software, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams Guide performance, power, and thermal optimization efforts Balance hands-on technical invol

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Wireless Systems Software Engineer , you will help build the core software libraries and system infrastructure that power the next generation of wireless experiences at HP IQ. You will work across hardware, firmware, embedded software, operating systems, and product teams to integrate and optimize multiple wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), NFC , and future connectivity solutions. You will play a key role in designing scalable software architectures that bridge hardware and software, enabling seamless communication across embedded devices and host platforms. This position offers the opportunity to work on challenging system-level problems, influence the architecture of a new wireless ecosystem, and help define technologies that will shape the future of work. What You Might Do Serve as a technic al expert across wireless technologies including Bluetooth, UWB, NFC , and related embedded communication interfaces. Architect, design, and develop reusable, scalable wireless software libraries with well-defined API

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Software Engineering Intern on the Systems team at HP IQ, you’ll work on low-level software that sits close to the hardware and helps power intelligent experiences across our products. This role is ideal for students who enjoy understanding how complex systems work under the hood. You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple layers of the software stack, investigate performance bottlenecks, optimize system behavior, and build software that interacts closely with hardware and system resources. We’re looking for engineers who are curious about more than whether something works — you want to understand how it works, why it performs the way it does, and how to make it better. What You Might Do Build and optimize low-level systems software using languages such as C and C++. Investigate performance bottlenecks and improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of existing systems. Work on data processing and sensor pipelines that connect software with underlying hardware. Analyze and improve memory usage, resource management, and system performance. Work across multiple lay

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ's Connectivity team is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer with strong hands-on experience across RTOS and embedded Linux platforms. You'll bring up new hardware, develop and support firmware across core device subsystems, and help scale products from prototype to fleet deployment. A key part of this role is enabling on-device intelligence — bringing AI models, sensing algorithms, and local processing to lightweight, power-constrained devices at the edge. What You Might Do Design, develop, and debug firmware across RTOS and embedded Linux platforms. Lead hardware bring-up — board bring-up, driver integration, and firmware support through to production. Develop and maintain firmware for subsystems such as connectivity, power and other sensors. Integrate lightweight model inference and sensing/proximity algorithms within tight compute, memory, and power budgets. Support fleet-scale deployment: OTA updates, field diagnostics, and post-launch sustainment. Collaborate with hardware, systems, and QA teams to troubleshoot system-level issues and drive root-cause fixes to closure. Ess

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We are hiring an Autonomy Platform Engineer to build and evolve the foundational software that runs our autonomy stack across robot and compute platforms. The Autonomy Platform team works across embedded Linux, compute and sensor enablement, robotics middleware, process orchestration, data capture and replay, system observability, and performance. You will develop production software and tooling that enables autonomy engineers to bring up new hardware, deploy services reliably, diagnose failures, and validate system performance across robot generations. You will work closely with autonomy, firmware, electrical, hardware, manufacturing, and validation engineers and report to the Autonomy Platform Lead. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and maintain core runtime, middleware, and platform services used by autonomy applications. Enable new compute, camera, lidar, and other sensor platforms. Improve process orchestration, messaging, configuration, startup and shutdown behavior, resource isolation, and fault recovery. Develop system observability, tracing, performance measurement, diagnostics, and regression-detection capabilities. Build reliable data capture, replay, and debugging workflows. Create provisioning, packaging, deployment, integration-test, and platform-readiness tooling. Lead complex debugging across application, middleware, OS, driver, networking, timing, and hardware boundaries. We’re excited about you because… Strong production C++ and Python experience. Experience with embedded Linux, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex mechatronic systems. Solid u

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s Connectivity team is seeking a Software Engineer with deep expertise in device software development. The ideal candidate will bring strong knowledge of connectivity stack and hands-on experience developing, integrating, and optimizing device software to deliver industry-leading user experiences. You will work at the intersection of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and emerging device-to-device transport technologies, tackling complex challenges in performance, reliability, and low-latency communication. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge innovations that are redefining how people and devices seamlessly connect across the modern enterprise. What You Might Do Design, develop, and integrate connectivity software features across Android, Windows, and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks, and system services. Implement, optimize, and tune wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms with a focus on enterprise-scale architectures and deployments. Design, implement, and troubleshoot peer-to-peer technologies to deliver secure, reliable, and low-latency

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We are hiring a Firmware Validation & Integration Engineer for our autonomy software team. This is a critical role to build robust and scalable validation for our firmware and systems to ensure reliability at every level. In this role, you will work with our electrical, firmware, and autonomy engineers to build the infrastructure and test suites required to validate the system. This includes designing and implementing our Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation environments and automation frameworks from the ground up. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Design and build Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems to simulate vehicle dynamics and sensor data for comprehensive firmware and system-level validation. Develop automated test infrastructure and software tools to exercise multiple embedded platforms throughout our robot system. Interface many layers of our control system including vehicle controls, power management, and motion control to ensure seamless system integration. Implement low-level test sequences and validation algorithms to safely stress-test vehicle components such as batteries, drive-train, and thermal management devices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify edge cases and hardware-software corner cases that impact vehicle safety and performance. We’re excited about you because… BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field. 5+ years of experience in validati

About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications. In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition. The ideal candidate has a passion for building and shipping reliable hardware at scale and thrives in an environment that demands technical depth and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent programs. This is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own connected devices end to end, including: Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment. Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists. Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments. Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior. Key Responsibilities Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture. Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Device Security, you will play a key role in helping HP IQ lead the industry in advancing the security of AI devices, and empowering business and users with control of their privacy and personal data in the quickly evolving AI-driven world. Privacy and security are table stakes at HP IQ, and absolutely integral to our success as a dynamic company with a deep commitment to product. You will own projects through their entire life cycle, building secure systems for our innovative devices by threat modeling, designing secure architectures, and implementing them. This role focuses on designing and implementing solutions across the entire software stack of embedded systems, PCs, and server class workstations. This includes the way they interface with the outside world, in a way that provides joyful user experiences without compromising privacy & security. The technology that you will create will maintain and strengthen the trust that HP IQ promises to our customers. What You Might Do Lead the design and implementation of embedded device secu

Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As the Senior Software Engineer, Tooling and Development Infrastructure, you will play a critical role in shaping the developer productivity tools and automated testing strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with design, development, and quality teams to plan, design, and implement robust automated tools and services that ensure the quality and reliability of our AI software stack. You will be highly hands-on in your work and collaborate closely with stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the development of cutting-edge automation frameworks, foster a culture of quality, and contribute to the long-term success of the organization. What You Might Do Develop and implement automation frameworks and testing strategies that cover the entire software stack, from backend systems to user-facing features. Identify, evaluate, and integrate new tools that streamline development. This includes everything from code quality tools and to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions. Lead continuous improvement efforts for our build, release, and test systems, ensuring a robust

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last-mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're looking for an experienced technical operator to lead live testing, deployment, and operational validation of cutting-edge autonomous technologies. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations, helping ensure new capabilities are safely deployed, thoroughly evaluated, and translated into actionable engineering feedback. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and oversee live testing across transport, deployment, and safety validation. Partner closely with hardware, software, and business operations teams to validate new product capabilities while providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members. Conduct and document complex tests for autonomous technologies, evaluating robot behavior, identifying issues, and validating new features and requirements. Provide actionable technical feedback to engineering teams based on test outcomes. Exercise technical judgment during live testing by evaluating robot behavior, assessing operational risk, distinguishing expected behavior from product defects, and determining when engineering escalation or additional validation is required. Develop and implement testing processes, protocols, and checklists that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of new products. Utilize internal tools to analyze logs, investigate issues, document findings, and track issues through resolution. Mentor junior team members in structured debugging and documentation practices. Conduct detailed analyses and generate comprehensive reports that identify trends, summarize findings, and provide strategic recommendations to engineering and operations partners. We’re excited about you because… 2+ years of exper