Senior Embedded Storage Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit is partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cork to hire a Senior Embedded Storage Engineer. You will join the Core Peripherals Storage team and develop storage drivers and filesystem modules for SoCs, supporting flash technologies and various storage stacks.

You will work on Linux kernel components, bootloaders, UEFI, and Linux user space, while optimizing runtime performance and power. This role offers broad scope across automotive and embedded computing markets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of embedded software experience.
• Expert C programming.
• Linux kernel programming and device driver development experience.
• Experience with Linux filesystems such as F2FS, EXT4, EROFS is a plus.
• Kernel and user space debugging with JTAG/ICE.
• Strong RTOS concepts and ARM architecture familiarity.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain storage drivers and proprietary filesystem modules for modem processors and Linux-based SoCs.
• Work on Linux kernel components including storage drivers, filesystem modules, block drivers, and memory subsystems.
• Optimize storage and memory performance for runtime efficiency and power consumption.
• Support product commercialization by debugging and resolving kernel-level issues reported by customers and flash vendor partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, open-source software and the Linux community.
• Contribute to and engage with the upstream Linux kernel community to design and implement new storage and memory features.
• Support expansion into new markets beyond mobile, including automotive, home entertainment, and embedded computing.

Skills

C programming

Linux kernel

Device driver development

Kernel internals

F2FS

EXT4

EROFS

JTAG debugging

ICE debugging

ARM architecture

RTOS concepts

Communication skills

Job description

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semiconductor company, based in Cork, who are looking for a talented Senior Embedded Storage Engineer to join their team.

In this role you will join their Core Peripherals Storage team. This team delivers storage drivers, filesystems, and tools for SoCs, supporting advanced flash technologies including UFS, NVMe, SD Express, eMMC, NAND, and NOR.

This role is for a Senior Engineer focused on developing storage drivers and software modules across the storage stack, including bootloaders, UEFI, Windows HLOS, and Linux user space. You will work with filesystems such as FAT (bootloader) and LittleFS (Zephyr RTOS), and contribute to storage flashing tools for both development and factory environments.

Responsibilities as Senior Embedded Storage Engineer:

• Develop and maintain storage drivers and proprietary filesystem modules for modem processors and Linux-based SoCs.
• Work on Linux kernel components including storage drivers, filesystem modules, block drivers, and memory subsystems.
• Optimize storage and memory performance for runtime efficiency and power consumption.
• Support product commercialization by debugging and resolving kernel-level issues reported by customers and flash vendor partners.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, open-source software and Linux community.
• Contribute to and engage with the upstream Linux kernel community to design and implement new storage and memory features.
• Support expansion into new markets beyond mobile, including automotive, home entertainment, and embedded computing.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in embedded software.
• Excellent programming skills and expert level knowledge of C is a must. Python knowledge is a plus.
• Expertise in Linux kernel programming, device driver development, and kernel internals (memory management, scheduling and device driver development).
• Experience with Linux filesystem modules such as F2FS, EXT4, EROFS will be plus.
• Should have good kernel and user space debugging skill, debugging using JTAG or ICE debuggers.
• Good understanding of basic real-time/embedded programming concepts & real time. operating systems concepts.
• Familiarity with ARM architecture and HW level debugging a plus.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must have great inter-personal communication skills.

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