Embedded Linux Software Engineer

Role – Embedded Linux Software engineer

Location – 3 Days onsite in Watford, 2 days remote

Start Date – 13th/20th of April

Rate – Market Rates

Contract Length – 6 Months rolling contracts

The role is Inside IR35 & Hybrid (Occasional Office visits)

What to expect

• Work within our highly technically diverse multidisciplinary teams (application software, embedded, computer vision, cloud platform, etc.)
• Support the development and productisation of our custom computing devices, medical devices, and other devices for the hospital operating rooms
• Drive collaboration with our hardware team to build and maintain compatible kernels/drivers for our hardware platforms
• Architect, develop, test and debug system services and hardware‑dependent software applications
• Coordinate and conduct code reviews for embedded software
• Contribute to the software infrastructure to ensure seamless software deployments
• Participate in the relevant security and regulatory compliance processes
• Develop robust and secure‑by‑design software fit for a medical‑grade system
• Perform formal risk analysis activities, develop software mitigations, run verification tests and participate in design transfer to manufacturing activities

Must Haves

• BS/MS in Computer, Electrical, Electronics Engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience working with Linux device drivers (V4L2/I2C/SPI/UART etc), tinkering with the Linux kernel and device trees
• Extensive experience with varied Linux system components such as kernels, services, log management, rules, etc.
• Excellent networking knowledge
• Expert C/C++ and shell scripting knowledge
• Experience working with custom Linux build systems (Yocto/Buildroot etc)
• Experience in system bring‑up and hardware integration
• Experience with over‑the‑air update mechanisms for embedded systems
• Strong knowledge of security concepts (e.g. hardware root of trust, cryptographic key generation and usage)
• Fundamental knowledge of Linux diagnostic/benchmarking tools
• Basic electronics knowledge – comfortable following a schematic and technical documentation/datasheet
• Experience with software systems engineering and design principles
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible – can independently solve problems as they arise but is comfortable asking for help when needed
• Comfortable with complexity – able to think through consequences of changes in a highly interconnected ecosystem over varied use environments

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with deployed hardware systems and remote device management
• Good Python programming skills
• Nvidia computing platforms experience
• Microcontroller development experience
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with automated testing
• Video processing/streaming experience, working with camera sensors, codecs and streaming protocols
• Understanding of core security concepts
• Experience with software development for medical products or other safety‑critical applications

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