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# Platform Software Porting Engineer at TrellisWare Technologies

- **Company:** TrellisWare Technologies
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2025-12-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trelliswaretechnologies/jobs/4076625009

## Job description

TrellisWare launched in 2000 with an innovative culture striving to push technological boundaries in the area of wireless communications. We are now a worldwide leader in highly advanced algorithms, waveforms, and communications systems that range from small form factor radio products to fully integrated solutions.

At TrellisWare, we connect passion with purpose and together we make an impact- on our careers, our company, and the world. And you can too. If you love to innovate and collaborate in a dynamic environment where boundaries are being pushed, you belong at TrellisWare. Where the opportunity to serve is not a challenge but a gift. Where you’re never going alone. Because there’s too much at stake to go solo.

Our Radio Products Team is seeking a Platform Software Porting Engineer. You will be designing, developing, and testing the porting foundation of TrellisWare’s partner radio vendor Software Defined Radio products.  You will have the opportunity to work closely with partner radio vendor specific embedded hardware, vendor specific software architecture/execution environment, platform peripheral/interface abstractions, and inter-processor communication mechanisms. Experience with precise software and system security, and/or deep audio, video and data network processing are each highly desirable for this position.

The essential duties and responsibilities include:

- Design, develop, and test software platform execution environments
- Generate, configure, and maintain Linux and RTOS based hardware abstraction layers, including inter-processor and inter-process communication abstractions
- Design, update, and extend hardware specific software component variants
- Facilitate hardware specific software component performance verification with targeted code
- Perform feasibility studies and performance analysis of critical system software on associated hardware platforms; Aid in evaluating new hardware architectures and associated software runtime environment performance analysis
- Interface with common Linux services and protocols
- Document and present design alternatives using standard professional practices and corporate defined engineering processes
- Work cross functionally to measure, debug, and optimize overall radio system performance

Education and work experience requirements are:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field of study required.
- Minimum of four years’ experience developing embedded Linux based and/or RTOS based board support packages
- Two years of experience with Yocto Project
- Experience with common software debugging and lab test equipment
- Experience with Object-oriented design, data link layer and device drivers as well as ARM based processors
- Experience with embedded communications/wireless systems preferred

To be considered for this position, you would need to meet, at a minimum, the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed here:

- Customization for embedded Linux subsystems and/or tailored lower-level Real-time operating system components
- Deep proficiency in C/C++ and Python
- Configuration and control of Radio Frequency Receive and Transmit front ends, and transceiver control
- Embedded system security including secure boot, tamper detection, secure SW upgrade, key management, user authentication and encryption, networking security protocols
- Efficient, high data throughput systems, DMA, minimum copy systems, and overload control
- Run time diagnostics, Built In Test (BIT), and logging across multiple radio subsystems
- Distributed revision control systems and common embedded Linux and/or RTOS development tools (i.e. compilers, linkers, and debuggers)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Additional requirements are:

- Must be an EU resident.
- Must speak at least one European language besides English.
- Must be able to travel internationally for work as required.

Employment terms and requirements include:

- The successful candidate will be employed through our Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Netherlands.
- This is a full-time position approved for remote work within the Netherlands, except when travel is required for business purposes. Employees must reside in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands throughout their employment.
- Due to collaboration requirements with our U.S. Pacific Time headquarters, this role may require working hours outside standard local business hours.

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable those with qualified disabilities.

- Able to frequently sit, stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach within hands and arm’s length, stoop, kneel, and crouch, talk and hear.
- Regularly required to sit for extended periods of time; frequently required to use office equipment such as PC, printer, telephone, etc.
- Able to regularly lift and/or move up to 5 kilograms, frequently lift and/or move up to 12 kilograms, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 23 kilograms.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Disclaimers

- The above statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Nothing in the job description restricts the company's right to change, assign, or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time for any reason.
- As part of our onboarding process, we conduct background checks, where legally permitted and appropriate for the role, in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and privacy requirements.

*TrellisWare Technologies, Inc. is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer.*

Check out the [Careers page](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/) for more information about working at TrellisWare Technologies.

## About TrellisWare Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TrellisWare Technologies is a global leader in highly advanced algorithms, waveforms, and communications systems, delivering resilient, mission-critical connectivity for military, government, public safety, and commercial customers when traditional communications fail.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed; bootstrapped origins)
- **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Four co-founders (names not listed on public sources) who spun off from Viasat, Inc.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Telecommunications / Defense & Tactical Communications / Wireless Networking
- **Target customers**: B2B, B2G – primarily government and defense agencies, public safety organizations, and commercial enterprises requiring reliable, secure communications in harsh environments.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Delivering the next generation of communications to military, civilian, and commercial markets — today.” Core values: Delivering Excellence, Empowering People, Pushing Boundaries.

## Products & Services
- **TSM® Waveform**: The standard Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (MANET) waveform, fielded in over 225,000 systems. Runs on TrellisWare radios and a wide ecosystem of partner platforms. Supports simultaneous voice, data, video, and Position Location Information (PLI) with high scalability (hundreds of nodes) and low spectrum usage. [trellisware.com](https://www.trellisware.com/)
- **Katana™ Waveform**: Next-generation resilient narrowband waveform designed for highly contested RF environments, providing seamless connectivity from permissive to contested settings. [trellisware.com](https://www.trellisware.com/)
- **Software Defined Radios (SDRs)**: Multi-waveform, broad-spectrum radios in small form factors to fully integrated solutions, supporting multiple waveforms and future technology insertion. [trellisware.com](https://www.trellisware.com/)
- **Partner Ecosystem**: TSM and Katana waveforms are integrated into trusted third-party radios and unmanned systems, creating a multi-vendor interoperability standard (Trellis//Sphere®). [trellisware.com](https://www.trellisware.com/)
- **Research & Development**: Advanced R&D programs in Software Defined Heterogeneous Networking (SDHN), Cognitive Networking, Distributed Signal Processing, and Dynamic Spectrum Access. [trellisware.com](https://www.trellisware.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $7.0M (LinkedIn data, likely third-party estimate; not officially confirmed). Over 225,000 systems fielded worldwide. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellisware-technologies)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; partner ecosystem includes major defense contractors (e.g., L3Harris, General Atomics, Northrop Grumman, Viasat) and government agencies. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellisware-technologies)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 185 employees, +14.1% year-over-year growth. Active job postings: 23 (yearly increase of +130%). Presence in Mexico, Poland, and Germany. LinkedIn followers growing +23.2% year over year. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellisware-technologies) [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trelliswaretechnologies)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven, fielded technology**: 225,000+ systems deployed in real-world military and public safety missions.
- **Interoperability standard**: TSM waveform is the “universal language” for a massive ecosystem of tactical radios and unmanned systems, reducing vendor lock-in.
- **Resilience**: “When Nothing Else Works™” – designed to operate in extreme conditions (tunnels, ships, urban, mountainous, contested RF environments).
- **True SDR architecture**: Waveforms can run on multiple partner radios, enabling flexible and future-proof deployments.
- **Broad spectrum & mobility**: Single radio covers UHF, L-Band, and S-band frequencies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding unmanned solutions**: New director of unmanned solutions appointed, indicating growth in drone/UAV markets.
- **International growth**: Establishing presence in Asia Pacific (Manila office) and Europe (Utrecht, Netherlands).
- **Continuous R&D investment**: Developing next-generation waveforms (Katana) and advanced networking capabilities to meet peer threats.
- **Ecosystem growth**: Growing the Trellis//Sphere® partner program to include more platforms and sensors.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-edge technology**: Work on advanced wireless communications, signal processing, and networking for mission-critical applications.
- **Culture of impact**: “We are inspired TO SERVE” – employees contribute directly to tools used by warfighters and first responders.
- **Hybrid work opportunities**: Flexible schedule with hybrid options available. [trellisware.com/careers/](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)
- **Generous benefits**: Generously subsidized healthcare (PPO with low deductible), dental, vision, life insurance, disability, 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options, generous paid vacation, holidays, sick leave. [trellisware.com/careers/](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)
- **Wellness & fitness**: Onsite gym, fitness reimbursements, free weekly yoga, hiking trails access, ping pong, foosball, basketball court, ergonomic assessments, fully-stocked breakrooms. [trellisware.com/careers/](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)
- **Professional development**: Leadership development, training programs, education reimbursement, access to financial planner, lunch-and-learns, Tech Talks (TrellisWare University). [trellisware.com/careers/](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)
- **Strong engineering community**: Diverse teams (RF, digital, software, mechanical, systems) solving hard problems in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. Monthly celebrations, charity participation, and social events. [trellisware.com/careers/](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)

## Sources
1. [trellisware.com – Company Overview](https://www.trellisware.com/)
2. [trellisware.com – About Us](https://www.trellisware.com/company/)
3. [trellisware.com – Careers Page](https://www.trellisware.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn – TrellisWare Technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellisware-technologies)
5. [Greenhouse – Jobs at TrellisWare](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trelliswaretechnologies)

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