Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, UK

Type: Contract

Duration: 6 Months (Until end of year)

Our client are an international semiconductor company

Responsibilitie

Design and maintain a reproducible Hardware Emulation environment utilizing PetaLinux toolchain

Wrap the entire emulation stack in Docker to ensure environmental consistency across developer workstations and automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins

Utilize QEMU to boot functional PetaLinux images, modeling specific peripherals, boot sequences, and memory map

Bridge QEMU with RTL simulators like Vivado XSIM via Remote Port / Transaction Level Modeling to validate custom logic alongside the software stac

Develop robust testbenches and automation scripts using Python to load hardware overlays, inject test vectors into emulated hardware, and assert correctnes

Requirements: Proven commercial experience with QEMU (specifically configuring and networking emulated ARM Cortex-A53/R5 cores) and RTL simulators.

Strong proficiency in Docker for standardizing complex toolchain environments (e.g., injecting Vitis Core Development Kits, PetaLinux).

Advanced Python programming for orchestrating tests, hardware interactions, and CI/CD automation.

Strong understanding of Linux OS internals, memory-mapped I/O, and driver-stack loading in embedded environments

If this sounds like it could be of interest, please apply below or reach out to daniel@microtech-global.com