U-Boot Porting Engineer Fully Remote
City Of London, Central London, Greater London, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-26
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Software Development
Unix/Linux, Embedded Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/ Firmware/ IoT
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 boot loader development for a next-generation high-end Cortex-A MPU.
This is genuine low-level boot loader / firmware work - not application-level Linux or straightforward integration. Ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the hardware and has real porting experience.
The opportunityFully 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 boot loader 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
- Embedded C and low-level development
- U-Boot and/or ARM TF-A boot loader 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
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