Staff Firmware and Operating System Engineer
📌Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand the technical landscape of their project and make decisions about it.
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Make independent technical contributions, especially for the most foundational or challenging parts of the project.
– 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.
– Configure and extend emulation, simulation, and virtualization software.
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Interact with engineers and leads from their and other teams to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
– Work with teams developing middleware, and/or contribute to middleware.
- Provide technical guidance to more junior team members, also acting as a mentor.
- Review team artifacts (design documents, code changes) both for correctness but also for code quality and consistency.
- Identify opportunities for code and/or process improvement.
- Loop in directors and above as needed, for instance to surface potential risks or get feedback based on area-level technical knowledge.
- Collaborate with program managers for task and deliverable tracking, as well as process improvements.
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Communicate outside the team, explaining and divulging technical topics to less technical parts of the organization.
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in the relevant field (more than 10 years).
- 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).
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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)
- Within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
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Experience leading teams at the technical level (not necessarily with a formal management role).
- 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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