Senior Embedded BSP Engineer – ARM Linux/QNX, Bring-Up

Syntronic; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Syntronic is seeking an experienced Embedded BSP Developer to design, implement, and integrate low-level software for ARM-based automotive platforms in Ottawa. You will drive board bring-up, bootloader development, secure boot features, and kernel components for production systems.

The role requires strong C programming, hardware-software interaction, and hands-on debugging with JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional embedded software development experience, including BSP and bootloader development for Linux, QNX, or similar embedded operating systems.
• Strong low-level C programming and debugging experience, with exposure to assembly language.
• Experience with ARM-based processors or SoCs, including ARM A-series, M-series, or similar embedded processor families.
• Hands-on experience completing board bring-up activities, including bootchain debugging, driver integration, and hardware/software validation.
• Experience developing or debugging device drivers, device trees, platform drivers, interrupt handling, memory mapping, file systems, power management, and hardware interfaces.
• Experience with embedded Linux build systems such as Yocto, OpenEmbedded, or BitBake.
• Familiarity with version control and software delivery workflows using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, repo manifests, pull requests, or similar tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify root cause and resolve issues across software, hardware, and system boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain BSP software for ARM-based embedded platforms.
• Develop and debug low-level software components including bootloaders, secure boot features, Linux kernel components, QNX platform components, device trees, and board-level drivers.
• Support board bring-up activities, including boot debugging, hardware interface validation, driver integration, and low-level system troubleshooting.
• Develop and troubleshoot drivers for interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, CAN/CAN FD, Ethernet, USB, GPIO, eMMC, NAND, NOR, PMIC, and other platform peripherals.
• Work with embedded Linux build systems and platform tooling, including Yocto, OpenEmbedded, BitBake, Git-based workflows, Jenkins, Python, and shell scripting.
• Support secure boot and embedded security features, including image signing, hardware root of trust, fuse provisioning, key management, and update reliability.
• Investigate complex software and hardware issues using boot logs, kernel logs, crash dumps, JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other debugging tools.
• Create and maintain software design documentation, participate in design reviews, and support product verification, validation, and release activities.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, test, manufacturing, and production teams to resolve issues and deliver reliable embedded software across product generations.

Skills

Low-level C programming

Debugging

ARM architecture

Board bring-up

Kernel drivers

JTAG debugging

Hardware interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Yocto

OpenEmbedded

BitBake

Git workflows

Jenkins

Python

Shell scripting

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Syntronic is seeking an experienced Embedded BSP Developer to design, implement, and integrate low-level software for ARM-based automotive platforms in Ottawa. You will drive board bring-up, bootloader development, secure boot features, and kernel components for production systems.

The role requires strong C programming, hardware-software interaction, and hands-on debugging with JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.