Firmware Engineering Consultant (ARM) Full-time

Job Title: Firmware Engineer

Job Location: Home based with broadband. This role may require international travel.

Reports to: Project Technical Lead, Developer Services

Job Summary: You will be part of a team working on the hardware enablement and upstreaming of ARM Trusted Firmware and U-Boot support for a number of different SoCs and target development boards.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Keenly understands ARM based hardware support in bootloaders such as ARM Trusted Firmware and U-Boot.
• Provides design and code review expertise to accelerate the upstreaming of specific silicon platform code.
• Works with platform specialists to ensure common frameworks and facilities are available to accelerate enablement and improve system stability.
• Collaborates with other teams in Linaro and with upstream developers where appropriate.

Required skills and experience:

• Capacity to learn new systems and techniques quickly.
• Excellent experience in embedded bootloader development.
• Experience with ARM related hardware peripherals and SoC boot up.
• Ability to work closely with engineers at other organizations enabling bootloaders on ARM based devices, providing code review, guidance and training.
• Understanding of current trends in ARM firmware development, with experience with some or all of ARM Trusted Firmware, UEFI and U-Boot.
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self discipline and self motivation, delivering according to a schedule.
• Strong English communication skills, especially over phone, email and IRC.

Desired skills and experience:

* Experience with ARM Trusted Firmware, UEFI and U-Boot, and ARM CPU’s in general. * Familiarity with open source development tools and methodology. * Experience submitting code to upstream projects.

Travel:

May be required to participate in a team kickoff meeting, all Linaro Connect events, plus one or more development “sprints” involving international travel.