Embedded BSP Engineer: Linux Kernel & Bring-Up

Concurrent; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays

Profit sharing

Cycle to work

Private Health Insurance (Bupa)

Employee assistance

Job summary

Concurrent, a leader in high-performance embedded computing, is seeking an Embedded BSP Engineer to join our team in Theale or Colchester. You will design, develop and maintain Linux BSPs for bespoke hardware, integrate kernel drivers, and configure Linux distributions for deployment on complex platforms.

Based at the hardware-software boundary, you will support bring-up, debugging across firmware, hardware and software layers, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver robust,

Qualifications

• Experience in BSP design and maintenance for Linux-based embedded systems.
• Proficient in Embedded C programming on x86 and/or ARM architectures.
• Experience configuring, porting, and debugging Linux kernels and platform software.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and system integration.
• Practical experience developing device drivers for interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, USB, UART, I2C, SPI, and GPIO.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in complex hardware/software environments.
• Confidence reading schematics, datasheets, and processor manuals.
• Experience customizing Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Rocky Linux) for embedded platforms.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and work across teams.
• Familiarity with Git version control.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Linux BSPs for high-performance embedded compute platforms.
• Develop and integrate Linux kernel drivers and platform support, including PCIe-based devices, FPGA peripherals, and networking interfaces.
• Configure and maintain Linux distributions for deployment on bespoke hardware.
• Develop user-space tools and utilities to support in-house drivers and platform features.
• Support performance optimisation across the full software stack.
• Debug complex issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers.
• Work across multidisciplinary engineering teams from design through bring-up and integration.
• Deliver complete system-level solutions for challenging customer issues.

Skills

BSP development

Embedded C

Linux kernel debugging

Hardware bring-up

Device driver development

Git version control

Tools

Linux

Git

JTAG

PCIe

Oscilloscope

Job description

Concurrent, a leader in high-performance embedded computing, is seeking an Embedded BSP Engineer to join our team in Theale or Colchester. You will design, develop and maintain Linux BSPs for bespoke hardware, integrate kernel drivers, and configure Linux distributions for deployment on complex platforms.

Based at the hardware-software boundary, you will support bring-up, debugging across firmware, hardware and software layers, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver robust,