Senior U-boot Embedded Engineer

🚀 Embedded Engineer – U-Boot / Cortex-A | Remote Europe | Outside IR35

An industry leading SemiConductor client is looking for a senior experienced Embedded Engineer for a long-term contract working fully from home (you can work from anywhere in Europe) on the porting of U-Boot to a next-generation SoC.

This is a genuinely low-level role — ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the hardware and has experience with U-Boot, bootloaders, Cortex-A, or high-end RZ/MPUs.

The opportunity

🌍 Fully remote – work from anywhere in Europe

📄 Long-term contract 🇬🇧 Outside IR35

💰 Competitive / high day rate

🎯 One-stage interview process

🔧 Work directly on a next-generation SoC and boot platform

What you'll be doing

The core focus is porting and bringing up U-Boot on a new SoC, working across the boot chain and supporting the platform from early bring-up through verification.

You'll be working with areas such as:

• Embedded C and low-level development
• U-Boot and/or ARM TF-A bootloader development
• Open-source upstream processes
• Cortex-A / high-end MPU architectures
• High end MPU such as Renesas RZ
• Linux BSPs, Device Tree and embedded Linux basics
• Experience with Yocto, Linux kernel debugging
• Hardware bring-up and debug would also be highly relevant

What we're looking for

Essential:

• Strong Embedded C / low-level development experience
• Commercial U-Boot development experience
• Experience with U-Boot
• Strong understanding of embedded Linux / ARM-based platforms

Highly desirable:

• high-end MPU experience
• ARM Cortex-A
• ARM TF-A
• Yocto / Linux build systems
• Device Tree
• Linux kernel debugging
• Hardware debugging — schematics, oscilloscopes, signal verification
• Git / GitLab and JIRA
• Python
• MISRA / static analysis
• Strong software testing background

You don't need to tick every box. If your background is strongly aligned with U-Boot, bootloaders and Cortex-A/MPU bring-up, I'd like to hear from you.

If this sounds like your kind of project — or you know someone who'd be a good fit — send me a message or your CV or apply on here and I'll talk you through the details in view of setting up a call between you and the client. The client are targeting a start from January 4th for a long term home working contract engagement.

The interview process is one stage and you can be shipped the hardware and send the paperwork in the months before Christmas.

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