Senior SoC Embedded FPGA Application Engineer
📌Marlow, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Job Description:
Altera delivers cutting-edge custom logic solutions across a wide spectrum of customer markets. We are looking to expand our European Applications Engineering team with a senior and motivated SoC embedded FPGA applications engineer to help our customers develop and implement innovative solutions.
As a senior embedded applications engineer you will serve as a technical subject matter expert for ARM CPU systems and soft cores on SoC FPGAs and provide customer enabling solutions and technical support to enable our key European customers to successfully meet market demands. We value technical excellence, customer focus, integrity, and teamwork.
Your Specific Role Will Include The Following
- Provide technical support for Altera’s key European customer base in the design, implementation and debugging of FPGA designs for embedded systems using Altera and third-party design software (e.g. Quartus, RiscFreeIDE, etc).
- Collaborate with field engineering, factory applications to prioritize resolution of critical customer issues.
- Partner with Product Marketing and Product Planning teams to drive strategic, innovative solutions aligned with customer needs and market opportunities
- Test and support Altera’s open-source software offerings such as U-Boot, Linux, Arm Trusted Firmware, LibRSU for ARM CPU cores focusing on SoC FPGA devices
- Work collaboratively with firmware and software developers for SoC FPGA boot up, device configuration and early system initialization
- Develop example device drivers for SoC FPFA peripherals for test and verification purpose
- Develop technical collateral including reference designs and presentations to demonstrate Altera products for both internal and external audiences.
- Test and develop example designs for RISC-V based soft cores on SoC FPGAs
- Evaluate new features, perform corner-case testing, and demonstrate performance to key European customers.
- Stay up to date with latest advancements in Linux kernel, Arm Trusted Firmware, Yocto and ARM / RISC-V architectures
- Challenge established approaches and drive forward-thinking initiatives
- Share knowledge in internal forums and actively encourage a culture of continuous learning and collaboration
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Mentor junior team members and support their professional growth
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
- BS in Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
- A minimum of 5 years of working with Linux / Bootloaders on SoC FPGAs / Embedded Systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of ARM CPU and RISC-V architecture targeting SoC FPGAs
- Expertise in C programming
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Advanced English
- Design experience using industry standard SoC FPGAs; understanding of SoC to FPGA bridges and interconnects
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of memory sub systems connected to SoC FPGA
- Proficiency of bash / shell programming for task automation and use of UNIX environment
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Strong analytical abilities with a creative and structured approach to problem solving and/or using ARM DS / RiscFree IDE
Regular
Shift
Shift 1 (United Kingdom)
Primary Location:
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
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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