Embedded Firmware Engineer

About the job

Join our Long-Range BU (Business Unit) R&D organisation and develop the platform firmware that the rest of our software relies on. Your role in the team is to abstract the complexity of the hardware away from the higher layers of firmware: improving the RTOS, drivers and common APIs, and supporting your colleagues with build systems, CI/CD pipelines and the tooling around them.

This is an individual-contributor position with a broad scope that can be shaped around your interests and skills, and it lets you grow your expertise across a wide range of areas. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and modern development tooling, and your work will end up in products deployed in millions of connected devices.

Key responsibilitiesDevelop, maintain and optimise embedded firmware, including RTOS configuration, device drivers and common platform APIs, so that feature development on top of them stays efficient.

Maintain and improve the cross-platform build environment shared by our firmware teams, and CI pipelines, using Docker or other containerised setups.

Bring up and develop firmware in pre-silicon environments such as emulators and FPGA platforms.

Write unit and integration tests for the firmware you develop, and keep them running in our CI pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins).

Share your knowledge through code reviews, documentation and technical guidance to the team.

Key Qualifications and SkillsMaster's degree in Computer Science, Communications Engineering, or a related technical field.

5+ years of experience in embedded software development.

Very good knowledge of C, especially in environments with restricted memory and performance constraints.

Strong problem solving and debugging skills.

Good understanding of the Arm Cortex-M architecture and embedded operating systems, such as Zephyr.

Experience with CI/CD tooling, git and automation.

Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day work.

Prior pre-silicon development experien