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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** microTECH Global Limited
- **Location:** Harston, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £105,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ARM Architecture, Continuous Integration, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Toolchain, Vivado, Core Api, Gitlab, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5899589127

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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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