U-Boot Porting Engineer Fully Remote)

X4 Group; City Of London; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

X4 Group is seeking a senior Embedded Engineer for a long-term remote Europe contract focused on U-Boot porting and trusted firmware bootloaders for high-end Cortex-A MPU platforms.

You will work on porting U-Boot to a new SoC, engage in TF-A bootloader development, contribute upstream, and support Linux BSPs, Device Tree, and embedded Linux work. This role is fully remote across Europe.

Qualifications

• Strong embedded C and low-level development.
• Experience porting U-Boot to new SoCs.
• Bootloader development for Cortex-A/MPU architectures.
• Open-source upstream involvement is a plus.
• Linux BSPs, Device Tree and embedded Linux familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Porting and bringing up U-Boot on a new SoC from early hardware bring-up.
• U-Boot and/or ARM TF-A bootloader development (BL2/BL3) on Cortex-A
• Contributing changes upstream through open-source processes
• Supporting the platform with BSP, Device Tree and embedded Linux work

Tools

U-Boot

Arm TF-A

Device Tree

Linux BSPs

Yocto

Job description

U-Boot Porting / 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 U-Boot and trusted firmware bootloader development for a next-generation high-end Cortex-A MPU.

The opportunity

Fully remote - work from anywhere in Europe

Long-term contract - targeting a start from early January

Outside IR35

Competitive day rate

One-stage interview process (Teams)

Work directly on a next-generation SoC and boot platform

What you'll be doing

• Porting and bringing up U-Boot on a new SoC, working across the boot chain from early hardware bring-up
• U-Boot and/or Arm TF-A bootloader development (BL2 / BL3) on high-end Cortex-A / MPU architectures
• Contributing changes upstream through open-source processes
• Supporting the platform with BSP, Device Tree and embedded Linux work

The client is particularly interested in engineers with experience in

• 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 - Renesas RZ or similar platforms
• Linux BSPs, Device Tree and embedded Linux
• Yocto and Linux kernel debugging
• Hardware bring-up and debug

If you have hands-on U-Boot porting experience on a new SoC and you're based in Europe, I'd love to hear from you.