Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Contract – Remote (UK)

A leading engineering organisation is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to support cutting-edge development on Adaptive SoC platforms. This role is fully remote within the UK and ideal for engineers with deep low-level expertise across bare-metal, embedded Linux, RTOS, high-speed networking and SoC bring-up.

Role Overview

You will design, develop, integrate and debug embedded software on advanced SoC architectures, working across bare-metal, Yocto Linux and Zephyr RTOS. You’ll contribute to board bring-up, hardware/software co-debug, system verification, driver-level development, and support high-speed interfaces including PCIe and 100GbE. Collaboration with global engineering teams is central to this role.

Key Skills Required

• Embedded software development in C/C++, plus scripting with Python and Bash
• Strong experience with bare-metal, Yocto Linux, Zephyr, RTOS
• SoC software flows, co-simulation, hardware debug and board bring-up
• High-speed interface experience: PCIe, Ethernet, 100GbE, SerDes
• Proficient with Git, CI/CD pipelines
• Advantageous: familiarity with AMD Adaptive SoC, Vivado, Vitis

What’s on Offer

• Long-term programme with high technical impact
• Opportunity to work on advanced SoC and networking technologies
• Full UK remote working
• Quick interview turnaround

Ideal Candidate

An engineer who thrives in low-level embedded environments, enjoys hardware interaction, debugging and performance optimisation, and has hands-on experience across SoC, drivers and high-speed communications.