I would be amazed if someone is going to be willing to find you a job because you decided to work on some OSS. However, having a project like this to talk about

I would be amazed if someone is going to be willing to find you a job because you decided to work on some OSS. However, having a project like this to talk about is great interview material. As for actually building this, I'd be very excited to see this being worked on. It's going to need a lot of different hardware to test with, so the more people working on it the better.