Contractor: Senior Build System Engineer

Contractor: Senior Build System Engineer

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The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Senior Build System Engineer to join our Ecosystem department on a contract basis for a specific, high-impact project for ESPHome.

ESPHome currently relies on PlatformIO which acts as an abstraction layer between ESPHome and the underlying vendor SDKs (like ESP-IDF). For ESP(32) projects using the ESP-IDF framework, this abstraction now adds complexity without clear benefit. The ESP-IDF already has a mature CMake-based build system that ESPHome could invoke directly.

The goal of this project is to phase out our dependency on PlatformIO.

By eliminating PlatformIO from the ESP-IDF path, we remove a third‑party dependency that must be maintained and versioned. This simplifies the toolchain and reduces potential points of failure. It also enables faster issue resolution. Currently, when upstream dependencies break, ...