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Overnight Linux Kernel Development Jobs in Chicago, IL

Quantiq

Hardware Developer- New Graduate

Chicago, IL · On-site

Other duties as assigned or needed Qualifications: * 1+ years experience in a hardware development ... Proficient in Basic Linux, including SSH * Interest in writing highly performant code * Excellent ...

Scalp Trade LLC

C++ Developer Intern

Chicago, IL · On-site

$84K/yr

Collaborative Development: Contribute to core trading platform enhancements alongside senior ... Linux Familiarity: Comfortable working in Linux environments; shell scripting and command-line ...

New

IMC

Trading Engineer - Execution

Chicago, IL

... development team. In this role, you will take ownership of systems that sit directly in the ... Linux operating systems, network configuration, and server management * Strong understanding of ...

P2P

Systems Software Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$145 - $185/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Experience with DPDK or comparable kernel-bypass packet processing, including the concepts that ... Strong Linux skills, including administration and troubleshooting of production servers. RHEL ...

New

DRW

Systems Software Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$178K - $211K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Experience with DPDK or comparable kernel-bypass packet processing, including the concepts that ... Strong Linux skills, including administration and troubleshooting of production servers. RHEL ...

DRW Holdings, LLC.

Systems Software Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$145 - $185/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Experience with DPDK or comparable kernel-bypass packet processing, including the concepts that ... Strong Linux skills, including administration and troubleshooting of production servers. RHEL ...

New

Astronics

Software Engineer II (Applications)

Waukegan, IL · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... development lifecycle. * Formulate, design, develop, document, test, and maintain primarily ... Strong familiarity with different Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Yocto, Debian, Raspberry Pi, for ...

Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

AI Engineer II

Chicago, IL · On-site

$116K - $144K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

AI Development & Deployment: Build and deploy AI models, large language model (LLM)-powered ... Experience with GPU environments, Linux systems, and frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel ...

Astronics

Software Engineer II (Applications)

Waukegan, IL

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... development lifecycle. Formulate, design, develop, document, test, and maintain primarily ... Strong familiarity with different Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Yocto, Debian, Raspberry Pi, for ...

Astronics

Software Engineer II (Applications)

Waukegan, IL · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... development lifecycle. Formulate, design, develop, document, test, and maintain primarily ... Strong familiarity with different Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Yocto, Debian, Raspberry Pi, for ...

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

AI Engineer II

Chicago, IL · On-site

$116K - $144K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

AI Development & Deployment: Build and deploy AI models, large language model (LLM)-powered ... Experience with GPU environments, Linux systems, and frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel ...

Life Fitness

Android Software Engineer II

Schaumburg, IL · On-site

$81K - $117K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in Java/Kotlin development, a solid foundation in ... Experience analyzing logcat, kernel logs, ANR traces, and system-level crash reports. * Strong ...

IMC

Trading Engineer - Execution

Chicago, IL · On-site

$175K - $225K/yr

  • PTO

Diagnose novel production incidents, often coordinating across trading, development, infrastructure ... Linux operating systems, network configuration, and server management * Strong understanding of ...

IMC

Trading Engineer - Execution

Chicago, IL · On-site

$175K - $225K/yr

  • PTO

Diagnose novel production incidents, often coordinating across trading, development, infrastructure ... Linux operating systems, network configuration, and server management * Strong understanding of ...

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Sr. Systems Engineer - Hybrid - Schaumburg, IL

Motorola Solutions

Schaumburg, IL • On-site

$120K - $140K/yr

Other

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 22 days ago

Motorola Solutions rating

8.7

Company rating: 8.7 out of 10

Based on 40 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

19th of 159 rated electronics manufacturers

Job description

Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We're a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that's critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we help people be their best in the moments that matter. We help firefighters see around buildings and police officers see around street corners. Our work is very meaningful, impactful, and cutting edge and we invite you to explore it.
Motorola Solutions is a world leader in the field of professional mobile communications systems with an impressive heritage of technological innovations and a global base of installed systems. The group's main business is the upgrade of mission critical digital communication systems for Government & Public Safety Communications customers.
Job Description
NOTE: This position Hybrid in Schaumburg, IL
Our company has an outstanding track record of success and strives to build long term relationships with our customers. Customer satisfaction is given great emphasis and we strive to build a trusted advisor relationship with every customer.
The upgrade team comprises Project Management, System Engineering and Field Engineering personnel working together in a high performance culture, often with demanding cycle times and high customer expectations because we are working on mission critical communication systems. Our systems are designed around the APCO Project 25 communications standard. The System Engineer will take responsibility for and oversee all technical aspects of the assigned project.
This involves:
  • Upgrade of the radio network including servers, network and RF devices
  • Customer presentations
  • Complete system documentation

Specific Knowledge/Skills
  • Experience/knowledge in radio communication systems, radio propagation, RF, wireless or broadband/LTE
  • Experience, good understanding, and working knowledge in IP networking, network design methodologies & troubleshooting (Ethernet, TCP/IP, L2/L3, MPLS)
  • Experience working with servers and virtualization such as ESXi, Linux-based Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, and Windows Group Policy
  • Experience directly working with end-user customers is desirable
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex topics to non-technical audiences
  • Willing and capable to lead a project, to be a team player, follow instructions, and identify and manage risks in a project, comfortable delegating tasks to project team members
  • Self-motivated, able to collaborate with members from different organizations, able to provide feedback by writing improved procedures, and able to maintain focus in a pressured environment
  • Ability to translate deep technical expertise into structured, teachable curriculum for engineers at varying skill levels
  • Skilled at assessing skill gaps and building a repeatable, measurable pipeline for developing engineers into higher-level technical roles
  • Comfortable balancing training/program-development responsibilities with continued hands-on delivery work (e.g., remote upgrades)

Preferred Experience
  • Previous knowledge and experience working with Juniper, Aviat, Cisco, Nokia/Alcatel, Xtreme, Ceragon, HPE Server, DELL PowerEdge Servers, HP Z2 Mini, HP ZBook Laptop
  • Experience with switching and routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, iBGP, eBGP, M-BGP, MPLS RSVP-TE, LDP, and IPSec)
  • Experience working with Windows registry, navigating Linux filesystem, reading/following flow of Bash, PowerShell, and Python scripts, router, switch, and firewall configuration
  • Experience working with remote login and file transfer protocols such as SSH, SCP, Telnet, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Server Message Block (SMB)
  • Experience with troubleshooting network connectivity, routing, Access Control List (ACL), firewall policies, remote login and file transfer issues, crashed script execution, and know how to use Wireshark
  • Certifications such as CompTIA Network+, Juniper JNCIA-Junos, Nokia NRS1, CCNA or similar
  • Experience with automation and tools such as Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, or Python
  • Experience designing or delivering technical training, curriculum development, or structured onboarding programs
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring or developing junior engineers toward greater technical responsibility

Target Base Salary Range - $120,000 - $140,000 USD
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
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Basic Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in one of the following; Engineering, Computer Science, Networking, IT, Cybersecurity, or Information Systems required.
  • Must be able to obtain a background clearance as required by our government customers.

Travel Requirements
Under 10%
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
Yes
Our U.S. Benefits include:
  • Incentive Bonus Plans
  • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
  • 401K with Company Match
  • 10 Paid Holidays
  • Generous Paid Time Off Packages
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Paid Parental & Family Leave
  • and more!

EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you'd like to join our team but feel that you don't quite meet all of the preferred skills, we'd still love to hear why you think you'd be a great addition to our team.
We're committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.

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At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It's the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class. As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways. At Motorola Solutions, we're ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Industry

Technology, communication and media

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Chicago, IL, US

Year founded

1928

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