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# Senior Embedded Software Engineer

- **Company:** Octagon
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Assembly Language, Booting (BIOS), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Memory Management, Embedded Software, Firmware, Hardware Interface Design, Real-Time Operating Systems, Powerpc, Systems Architecture, System Programming, Systems Integration
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p9zpvb0rhx

## About the Role

* Strong experience with BSP development, embedded systems or low-level software engineering.
 * Excellent C/C++ programming skills.
 * Experience working with boot loaders, firmware and RTOS environments.
 * Good understanding of system architecture, memory management and hardware interfaces.
 * Experience debugging embedded hardware and software integration issues.
 * Exposure to assembly languages (ARM, AArch64, x86_64 or PowerPC) is beneficial.

## Description

Working on mission-critical embedded platforms used in highly regulated industries, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining BSPs, bringing up new hardware platforms, writing low-level device drivers, and ensuring seamless integration between operating systems and embedded hardware.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Develop and customise Board Support Packages (BSPs) for embedded hardware platforms.
 * Design and maintain low-level device drivers for networking, storage and peripheral interfaces.
 * Perform board bring-up, hardware/software integration, debugging and system optimisation.
 * Develop boot loaders and system initialisation routines.
 * Work closely with hardware manufacturers and engineering teams to support new embedded platforms.
 * Participate in requirements development, code reviews, testing and verification activities.


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