Senior Embedded RF Engineer: ARM Cortex-M & Linux Drivers

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE's Advanced Concepts division is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design, implement, and optimize RF systems on ARM Cortex‑M devices. You will write low-level firmware, integrate I2C/UART/SPI/CAN in Linux and bare-metal environments, and contribute to Yocto/Linux image builds for autonomous systems.

Applicants should have 8+ years in embedded software, strong C/C++/Assembler skills, Linux kernel expertise, and hands-on RF knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, communication, electronic, software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Implement OSI: PHY/layer 1 and layer 2 radio for running on Microcontroller or FPGA.
• Develop embedded software for RF systems, including signal processing for data‑links.
• Write device drivers and low level software for RF-chipsets and modules.
• Develop and maintain bare-metal firmware for microcontrollers based on ARM Cortex-M architectures.
• Develop and maintain firmware with RTOS on microcontrollers.
• Integrate various communication protocols like I2C, UART, SPI, CAN and ETH in both Linux and microcontroller environments.
• Use of programming languages for Microcontrollers such as C/C++ and Assembly.
• Design and generation of Board Support Packages.
• Participate in code reviews, ensure code quality, and follow established coding standards.
• Stay up-to-date with advancements in embedded technologies and best practices.
• Analyse and improve the performance of the developed RF systems in terms of throughput , latency, power consumption, and signal quality.
• Build of Linux images such as Yocto and FreeRTOS.
• Use of version controlled environment such as Git or SVN.
• Use of code writing style guides (as for example pep8 for python).
• Implement Linux drivers and kernel modules for custom hardware components
• Implement Linux client/server against UDP, TCP or IP
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills
• Conduct testing and troubleshooting of both software and hardware
• Support, lead and mentor junior engineers and share knowledge

Skills

Embedded software

C/C++/Assembler

ARM Cortex-M

RTOS

Linux kernel dev

I2C/UART/SPI/CAN

RF fundamentals

Mentoring

Debugging

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE/related

Tools

Yocto

FreeRTOS

Git

Job description

EDGE's Advanced Concepts division is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to design, implement, and optimize RF systems on ARM Cortex‑M devices. You will write low-level firmware, integrate I2C/UART/SPI/CAN in Linux and bare-metal environments, and contribute to Yocto/Linux image builds for autonomous systems.

Applicants should have 8+ years in embedded software, strong C/C++/Assembler skills, Linux kernel expertise, and hands-on RF knowledge.