Linux Software Engineer Jobs in Texas
Linux Software Engineer jobs in Texas are among the most active in the country, with strong demand from entry-level developers through principal engineers concentrated in defense contracting, semiconductor manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software. Austin, Dallas, and Houston anchor the hiring, with employers like Dell Technologies, Texas Instruments, and Lockheed Martin maintaining deep rosters of linux software engineers across those metros. The most consistently sought specialties are kernel development, embedded systems, and DevOps-oriented linux engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About the team
We build the foundational system software and embedded Linux platform that run our autonomous vehicles and delivery robots. Modern autonomous platforms are essentially rolling, edge data centers: high-throughput cameras, LiDARs, compute nodes, and managed switches must communicate with ultra-low latency and microsecond-level time synchronization. Simultaneously, the vehicle must maintain robust, high-availability connectivity to the cloud via cellular and Wi-Fi networks while moving through unpredictable physical environments. Our team owns this foundation end-to-end: the on-board network architecture, customized Linux images, fleet-wide OS updates, and the connectivity daemons that keep our fleet online. When our layer works seamlessly, the autonomy stack above it doesn't have to think about hardware, packets, or clocks — and that is exactly the goal.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Systems & Networking Engineer to own, scale, and harden the communication fabric of our autonomous vehicles. You will focus deeply on both our complex, multi-gigabit internal network (connecting safety-critical sensors and high-compute nodes using the latest Automotive Ethernet and TSN standards) and external connectivity (high-throughput 5G telemetry), debugging complex issues across the Linux stack and target hardware. This is a high-impact, hands-on role with broad technical ownership. You will collaborate closely with core platform and hardware engineers to evolve our networking architecture. Your work spans the entire systems stack — from low-level optimizations like NIC ring buffer tuning and microsecond PTP/gPTP synchronization, to architecting high-performance Go daemons for multi-carrier cellular bonding and failover.
What you'll do
Internal Networking & Time Synchronization
- Safety-Critical Infrastructure: Architect, configure, and optimize the internal fault-tolerant network linking on-board compute nodes, controllers, and high-bandwidth sensors (LiDARs, cameras).
- Clock Synchronization: Drive the design and reliability of vehicle-wide time synchronization utilizing PTP / IEEE 802.1AS (gPTP) for safety-critical data paths.
- Switch & Hardware Management: Configure and troubleshoot managed automotive/industrial switches (e.g., Marvell, Broadcom), VLAN segmentation, and Automotive Ethernet to ensure deterministic traffic isolation.
External Connectivity & Platform Systems
- Engineered Connectivity: Design robust failover mechanisms, network bonding frameworks (aggregating multiple LTE/5G carriers) to ensure zero-drop external links
- Linux Performance Tuning: Debug and tune low-level networking parameters (NIC buffers, hardware offloads, interrupt handling, and NAPI behavior) for high-throughput, low-latency performance.
- Systems Software Development: Write and maintain reliable system-level software, telemetry agents, and daemons in Go and Python for x86_64 and ARM64 (NVIDIA) platforms.
- Hardware-Software Integration: Assist the embedded Linux team with hardware bring-up, debugging physical interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet), and integrating networking components into our custom OS deployment.
- Observability: Build end-to-end monitoring for the networking stack, exporting granular performance metrics so the fleet's connectivity health is debuggable at scale.
What you'll need
- Systems Programming Depth: Strong track record in system-level software development with deep expertise in Linux systems and networking fundamentals (roughly mid to senior level — we care about depth, not a year count).
- Advanced Networking Expertise: Hands-on experience with IP routing, VLANs, firewalling (nftables/iptables), and expert-level packet troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark etc).
- Language Proficiency: Solid experience programming in Go and Python, with a willingness to work interchangeably between them. Comfort reading/understanding C/C++ for lower-level debugging.
- Hardware-Boundary Debugging: A methodical approach to debugging complex problems that span across user-space code, Linux kernels, drivers, and physical hardware interfaces.
- Location: Austin, TX (On-site / Hybrid. This role requires close collaboration with real hardware and lab tools in our Austin facility).
Nice to have
- Automotive / Edge Networking: Prior experience with Automotive Ethernet, TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking).
- Time-Sync Expertise: Hands-on exposure to implementing or debugging PTP and hardware timestamping in distributed systems.
- Embedded / Hardware Tools: Comfort using lab tools (serial consoles, JTAG, I2C/SPI) to isolate hardware faults vs. software bugs on ARM64 platforms.
- Real-Time Linux: Experience with real-time OS tuning, cgroups, CPU pinning, and scheduling priorities.
- Nix / NixOS Experience: Familiarity with the Nix ecosystem (our deployment platform is built on NixOS).
#LI-MS1
Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation sponsorship, and remote work options are not available.
Avride is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities to ensure they have equal access to employment opportunities. Avride complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with the application or hiring process, or to perform the essential functions of a job, please email jobs@avride.ai.
About the team
We build the foundational system software and embedded Linux platform that run our autonomous vehicles and delivery robots. Modern autonomous platforms are essentially rolling, edge data centers: high-throughput cameras, LiDARs, compute nodes, and managed switches must communicate with ultra-low latency and microsecond-level time synchronization. Simultaneously, the vehicle must maintain robust, high-availability connectivity to the cloud via cellular and Wi-Fi networks while moving through unpredictable physical environments. Our team owns this foundation end-to-end: the on-board network architecture, customized Linux images, fleet-wide OS updates, and the connectivity daemons that keep our fleet online. When our layer works seamlessly, the autonomy stack above it doesn't have to think about hardware, packets, or clocks — and that is exactly the goal.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Systems & Networking Engineer to own, scale, and harden the communication fabric of our autonomous vehicles. You will focus deeply on both our complex, multi-gigabit internal network (connecting safety-critical sensors and high-compute nodes using the latest Automotive Ethernet and TSN standards) and external connectivity (high-throughput 5G telemetry), debugging complex issues across the Linux stack and target hardware. This is a high-impact, hands-on role with broad technical ownership. You will collaborate closely with core platform and hardware engineers to evolve our networking architecture. Your work spans the entire systems stack — from low-level optimizations like NIC ring buffer tuning and microsecond PTP/gPTP synchronization, to architecting high-performance Go daemons for multi-carrier cellular bonding and failover.
What you'll do
Internal Networking & Time Synchronization
- Safety-Critical Infrastructure: Architect, configure, and optimize the internal fault-tolerant network linking on-board compute nodes, controllers, and high-bandwidth sensors (LiDARs, cameras).
- Clock Synchronization: Drive the design and reliability of vehicle-wide time synchronization utilizing PTP / IEEE 802.1AS (gPTP) for safety-critical data paths.
- Switch & Hardware Management: Configure and troubleshoot managed automotive/industrial switches (e.g., Marvell, Broadcom), VLAN segmentation, and Automotive Ethernet to ensure deterministic traffic isolation.
External Connectivity & Platform Systems
- Engineered Connectivity: Design robust failover mechanisms, network bonding frameworks (aggregating multiple LTE/5G carriers) to ensure zero-drop external links
- Linux Performance Tuning: Debug and tune low-level networking parameters (NIC buffers, hardware offloads, interrupt handling, and NAPI behavior) for high-throughput, low-latency performance.
- Systems Software Development: Write and maintain reliable system-level software, telemetry agents, and daemons in Go and Python for x86_64 and ARM64 (NVIDIA) platforms.
- Hardware-Software Integration: Assist the embedded Linux team with hardware bring-up, debugging physical interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet), and integrating networking components into our custom OS deployment.
- Observability: Build end-to-end monitoring for the networking stack, exporting granular performance metrics so the fleet's connectivity health is debuggable at scale.
What you'll need
- Systems Programming Depth: Strong track record in system-level software development with deep expertise in Linux systems and networking fundamentals (roughly mid to senior level — we care about depth, not a year count).
- Advanced Networking Expertise: Hands-on experience with IP routing, VLANs, firewalling (nftables/iptables), and expert-level packet troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark etc).
- Language Proficiency: Solid experience programming in Go and Python, with a willingness to work interchangeably between them. Comfort reading/understanding C/C++ for lower-level debugging.
- Hardware-Boundary Debugging: A methodical approach to debugging complex problems that span across user-space code, Linux kernels, drivers, and physical hardware interfaces.
- Location: Austin, TX (On-site / Hybrid. This role requires close collaboration with real hardware and lab tools in our Austin facility).
Nice to have
- Automotive / Edge Networking: Prior experience with Automotive Ethernet, TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking).
- Time-Sync Expertise: Hands-on exposure to implementing or debugging PTP and hardware timestamping in distributed systems.
- Embedded / Hardware Tools: Comfort using lab tools (serial consoles, JTAG, I2C/SPI) to isolate hardware faults vs. software bugs on ARM64 platforms.
- Real-Time Linux: Experience with real-time OS tuning, cgroups, CPU pinning, and scheduling priorities.
- Nix / NixOS Experience: Familiarity with the Nix ecosystem (our deployment platform is built on NixOS).
#LI-MS1
Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation sponsorship, and remote work options are not available.
Avride is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities to ensure they have equal access to employment opportunities. Avride complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with the application or hiring process, or to perform the essential functions of a job, please email jobs@avride.ai.
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What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in linux software engineer jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with Linux kernel development, system administration, or embedded systems programming
- Proficiency in C, C++, or Python for systems-level development on Linux platforms
- Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes in Linux environments
- Experience with version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development workflows
- Knowledge of networking protocols, security hardening, and performance tuning on Linux systems
Linux Software Engineer Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a linux software engineer in Texas?
The standard path into a linux software engineer role in Texas begins with a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or electrical engineering, as most Texas employers in defense, semiconductor, and cloud sectors list this as a baseline. There is no state-issued license required for the role. Candidates who build hands-on Linux project portfolios, contribute to open-source repositories, and earn vendor-recognized credentials such as the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer designation consistently stand out in the Texas market.
How much do linux software engineers make in Texas?
Linux software engineers in Texas earn a median of about $132,150 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $82,600 for the lowest 10% to over $183,680 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire linux software engineers in Texas?
Employers hiring linux software engineers in Texas right now include Arista Networks, AMD, and GEICO, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Texas's concentration of defense primes, semiconductor fabs, and cloud infrastructure operators means linux engineering roles appear across a wide range of industries, from consumer hardware to government contracting.
Which Texas cities have the most linux software engineer jobs?
Austin, Allen, and Dallas consistently post the most linux software engineer openings in Texas. Austin drives volume through its dense cluster of semiconductor firms and cloud software companies, Dallas attracts postings from major enterprise technology and telecom employers, and Houston's energy technology and aerospace sectors sustain steady demand for engineers working on linux-based embedded and industrial systems.
Are there remote linux software engineer jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most engineering disciplines. About 14% of linux software engineer openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how much of the work happens at the application and infrastructure layer rather than on physical hardware. The roles most likely to stay fully on-site are those tied to classified defense programs or semiconductor fabrication environments.
How can I get hired as a linux software engineer in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a junior or associate software engineer role at a Texas technology company that runs structured new-graduate programs, such as the university-recruiting pipelines at Dell Technologies in Round Rock or Texas Instruments in Dallas. Candidates from adjacent roles like IT systems administrator, network engineer, or QA automation tester who have built personal Linux projects or contributed to open-source software frequently make lateral moves into junior linux engineering positions. A Linux Foundation certification and a demonstrable GitHub portfolio give early-career applicants a concrete edge over candidates relying solely on coursework.
Where can I find and apply to linux software engineer jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to linux software engineer jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings across Austin, Dallas, Houston, and beyond. Find a role that fits and apply directly.
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