Software Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven commercial experience with QEMU, specifically configuring and networking emulated ARM Cortex-A53/R5 cores, and RTL simulators
• Strong proficiency in Docker for standardizing complex toolchain environments, including injecting Vitis Core Development Kits and PetaLinux
• Advanced Python programming for orchestrating tests, hardware interactions, and CI/CD automation
• Strong understanding of Linux OS internals, memory-mapped I/O, and driver-stack loading in embedded environments

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain a reproducible hardware emulation environment utilizing PetaLinux toolchains
• Wrap the entire emulation stack in Docker to ensure environmental consistency across developer workstations and automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/Jenkins)
• Utilize the AMD fork of QEMU to boot functional PetaLinux images, modeling specific peripherals, boot sequences, and memory maps
• Bridge QEMU (PS) with RTL simulators like Vivado XSIM (PL) via Remote Port / Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) to validate custom logic alongside the software stack
• Develop robust testbenches and automation scripts using Python, leveraging XRT bindings or PYNQ, to load hardware overlays, inject test vectors into emulated hardware, and assert correctness

Technologies:

• ARM
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Embedded
• GitLab
• Hardware
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Python
• QEMU

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Our client is an international semiconductor company.

last updated 39 week of 2026