U-Boot Porting Engineer Fully Remote)

X4 GroupLondonreedpublished 10/20/2026
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About the company

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 bootloader development for a next-generation high-end Cortex-A MPU.

Your tasks

This is genuine low-level bootloader / firmware work – not application-level Linux or straightforward integration. Ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the hardware and has real porting experience.

  • 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 bootloader 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

Requirements

The client is particularly interested in engineers with experience in:

  • Embedded C and low-level development
  • U-Boot and/or ARM TF-A bootloader 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

What we offer

Fully remote – work from anywhere in Europe Long-term contract – targeting a start from early January

How to apply

One-stage interview process (Teams) Work directly on a next-generation SoC and boot platform

If you have hands-on U-Boot porting experience on a new SoC and you're based in Europe, I'd love to hear from you. Apply here or message me directly for a confidential conversation.

Other

U-Boot Porting / Cortex-A | Remote Europe | Outside IR35