Embedded Platform Engineer
Posted
Summary
Builds and runs Factbird's industrial edge platform: a Yocto-based embedded Linux OS, Rust device software, OTA updates, provisioning, and fleet observability for unattended factory devices, plus camera pipelines and ONNX model inference for computer vision at the edge.
Factbird helps manufacturers turn real-time production data into decisions they can actually act on. Since 2016, we've helped manufacturers in 28 countries cut waste, boost uptime, and run smarter — from the shop floor to the boardroom. Over 300 companies trust us to make sense of their operations, and we're a team of 80+ people across Copenhagen and the US who care about making complex things simple.
Our IoT team builds the devices and edge software that connect our customers' production lines to the Factbird platform, from sensors on the line to industrial edge computers running computer vision right next to the machines. We're a small team with broad ownership, and we're hiring an Embedded Platform Engineer to help build and run the platform our edge products stand on.
As Embedded Platform Engineer, you'll work hands-on across Factbird EDGE, our industrial edge platform, together with the rest of the IoT team: the operating system, the device software, and the vision models that run on it. You'll take ownership of the infrastructure around the devices: provisioning and recovery, over-the-air updates, and fleet observability, the systems that keep our unattended devices reliable, secure, and safely updatable in factories you may never visit.
You'll work in Rust on embedded Linux, with Yocto, AWS IoT Greengrass, GStreamer and ONNX Runtime at the core, alongside our Cloud and DevOps engineers and the people building our AI capabilities. Part of the job is shaping the role with the team as our edge products grow.
You'll thrive here if you like working across a system end to end, from the bootloader to the cloud connection, and if you'd rather fix the root cause in the build than patch around it on the device.
Embedded Linux & the EDGE platform
- Develop our Yocto-based Linux distribution: layers, BSPs, kernel configuration, and reproducible builds
- Build and maintain the Rust components that run on our edge devices
- Bring up new hardware platforms, debug on target, and keep the platform secure and maintainable over a long device lifetime
- Keep our CI and on-hardware testing healthy, so changes reach devices with confidence
Edge inference & vision
- Work with our ML and vision engineers on the device side of our computer vision capabilities: camera pipelines, video streaming, and model inference that runs efficiently on industrial hardware
- Share ownership with our ML engineers of how trained models move from our model pipeline onto devices and how they perform there: packaging, rollout, rollback, and drift monitoring
- Help bring new edge runtimes for vision workloads from development into production
Fleet infrastructure & ownership
- Own device provisioning, over-the-air updates, and fleet observability
- Make deployments to devices in the field safe and boring: staged rollouts, health checks, and recovery paths
- Help diagnose issues on devices at customer sites, working with Support, Product, and Cloud to turn them into lasting fixes
- Share knowledge in both directions: learn the parts of the platform others built, and make sure what you build doesn't live only in your head
What we're looking for
We're looking for an engineer who has shipped embedded Linux into production and lived with it afterwards: someone who has debugged a device they couldn't touch, and who wants real responsibility rather than a ticket queue.
You work independently, but you don't work alone. You can take a loosely defined problem and move it forward without daily direction, and you pull others in early, because on a small team the best fix is one more than one person understands. You're disciplined where it matters, in releases and rollouts, and curious where it pays off, in vision and new hardware.
You don't need everything below. Yocto is the core. Rust matters, but strong C/C++ engineers who have started with Rust are welcome too. The rest you can grow into with us.
The ideal background
The ideal background
- Hands-on experience shipping embedded Linux to production, including Yocto: layers, BSPs and images you've built and maintained yourself, not just consumed
- Strong systems programming in Rust, or deep C/C++ experience on embedded Linux and real exposure to Rust that you want to build on
- An advantage if you have worked with AWS IoT Core or Greengrass, video pipelines or ML inference on edge hardware, or in industrial settings where devices run unattended for years
- A solid grasp of embedded security and update mechanisms: signed images, A/B or similar update schemes, and secure device provisioning
- You can explain a technical trade-off clearly, whether you're talking to another engineer, Support or a customer, and you do it in fluent English
- We welcome applications from people eager to move to Denmark, as long as you already have the legal right to live and work here.
People are at the heart of everything we build. We believe great products come from empowered teams — and we work hard to create an environment where you can do your best work and have space for life beyond it.
Here's what you can look forward to:
- Flexible working hours: We trust you to manage your time. Life isn't one-size-fits-all, and neither is work.
- Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills, experience, and impact.
- Internet reimbursement: Stay connected and productive, wherever you choose to work from.
- Thoughtful, human onboarding: We'll support you step by step, giving you the context, tools, and guidance you need to feel confident from day one.
- A career path that grows with you: Through bi-yearly Individual Development Plan conversations, we'll work together to shape a career journey that fits your ambitions.
- Company-wide gatherings & team days: We regularly come together across teams and regions to connect, celebrate, and align on what's next.
- A global, inclusive culture: We're proud of our diverse backgrounds and perspectives — and we actively celebrate them in how we work and collaborate.
We'd love to hear from you
If this role feels like a match, we'd be excited to hear from you and explore how you could help shape the future of data collection and production monitoring at Factbird.
And if someone in your network comes to mind who might be a great fit — feel free to share this opportunity with them.
Have questions? You can always reach out to Cristina Vartej at crva@factbird.com
At Factbird, we believe that great work starts with people feeling respected, valued, and included. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
All employment decisions at Factbird are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without discrimination based on gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or family status, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable European and local employment laws.
If this role feels like a match, we'd be excited to hear from you and explore how you could help shape the future of data collection and production monitoring at Factbird.
And if someone in your network comes to mind who might be a great fit — feel free to share this opportunity with them.
Have questions? You can always reach out to Cristina Vartej at crva@factbird.com
At Factbird, we believe that great work starts with people feeling respected, valued, and included. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
All employment decisions at Factbird are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without discrimination based on gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or family status, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable European and local employment laws.