Senior Firmware & OS Engineer
📌Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
Develop low- (BIOS, firmware, device drivers) and mid-level software (emulation, simulation, and virtualization) to enable the use of OpenChip’s novel hardware features and accelerators, bringing visible improvements to end users.
Job Responsibilities
Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:
- Develop and maintain low-level software (BIOS and firmware) for novel hardware architectures.
- Develop and maintain device drivers for operating systems (mainly Linux) to expose novel hardware features (e.g., telemetry) and acceleration, as well as to support their emulation and virtualization.
- Provide monitoring, instrumentation, and telemetry to export system status and health metrics.
- Provide workload control and configuration, and API entry points to allow remote operation.
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Configure and extend emulation, simulation, and virtualization software.
- Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.
- Work with teams developing middleware, and/or contribute to middleware.
- Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,. . .
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Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations. . . ).
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in the relevant field (3-5yr).
- Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache and memory hierarchy, buses,. . . ).
- Good understanding of pre-boot and boot process, and Linux kernel internals.
- Knowledge about compilation and linking process (toolchains, object file formats, binutils, dynamic loading,. . . ).
- Solid knowledge of low-level development languages (C, Rust).
- Experience with assembly language (of any architecture).
- Experience with bare metal (without OS) development (e.g., embedded systems, microcontrollers).
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Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
- Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
- Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.
- Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).
- Experience with hypervisor technology (KVM, Xen).
- Experience with open source software development.
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Experience with system boot technology (UEFI/EDK2, ACPI, u-boot, devicetree).
- Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.
- Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
- Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
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Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to solve any obstacle by themself. Self-aware, self-starter, and self-motivated.
- Join an innovative team and experience company growth.
- We believe in investing in our employees and providing them with the opportunities they need to grow and develop their careers.
- Enjoy a hybrid work environment.
- We also offer flexible schedule.
- We offer a remuneration that values your experience.
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The position will have the base in Barcelona.
If you feel identified with Openchip, please contact us. We can offer a competitive compensation package in a flexible work schema that will help you to keep a balance between your personal and professional life.
At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. , we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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