Bootloader/ U-boot Porting Engineer

Contract Embedded Engineer: U-Boot / TF-A Bootloader Porting (Remote, Europe, Outside IR35)

We're recruiting for a global semiconductor leader that needs a hands-on bootloader engineer to port and bring up U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A on new high-end Cortex-A SoCs.

The essentials

• Contract starting around early January

• Fully remote, anywhere in Europe

• Outside IR35

• One stage only: a single technical interview on Teams

What you'll be doing

• Porting U-Boot to new silicon: SPL, DDR initialisation and board bring-up, not just config changes

• Working across the full boot chain, from first-stage loader through to the OS

• Porting and maintaining TF-A (BL1/BL2/BL31) on a Cortex-A MPU, including EL3, PSCI and SMC handling

• Secure-world integration (TrustZone, OP-TEE) and chain-of-trust work

What we're looking for

• Genuine U-Boot porting and bring-up on a new SoC. We want to hear which SoC and which parts you personally owned

• Real TF-A experience on a high-end Cortex-A platform (not Cortex-M)

• Strong C and ARMv8 low-level debugging

• Upstream contributions to U-Boot or TF-A are a big plus

• Based in Europe

This is a specialist role and the bar is high. Application-level work, board-config-only changes, MCU-only experience and keyword-only CVs won't be a match, so please apply only if you have done the porting yourself.

Interested? Message me directly or send your CV with the SoCs you've ported U-Boot and TF-A onto, and I'll come straight back to you.

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