Senior Embedded/Firmware Engineer, Linux

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🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

💵 zł120 - zł180 / hour

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🟠 Senior

🔧 Hardware Engineer

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intent

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Marketing • Healthcare

intent is a software design and engineering company that specializes in creating connected devices at the intersection of physical and digital technology. With over a decade of experience, intent collaborates with startups and leading innovators to conceptualize, design, build, and scale digital products throughout their lifecycle. Their portfolio showcases a variety of successful projects, including wearables that provide medical insights and action communicators for outdoor activities. The team emphasizes professionalism, customer satisfaction, and efficient project delivery, making them a trusted partner in the technology and design sectors.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain custom embedded Linux distributions using Yocto or Buildroot • Bring up new hardware platforms and work with the hardware team to debug issues from schematics to software • Develop and maintain BSPs and bootloaders such as U-Boot • Customize the Linux kernel, including writing and debugging I2C, SPI, UART, and MIPI-CSI/DSI drivers • Write robust, efficient C/C++ code for system services and applications • Optimize boot time, memory usage, and power consumption • Implement and maintain Secure Boot and encrypted filesystem features • Debug firmware and hardware-adjacent issues with JTAG/SWD, serial logs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and vendor tooling • Collaborate with hardware, mobile, QA, backend, product, and client-side engineering teams • Participate in requirements discussions, technical planning, architecture decisions, estimations, and delivery planning • Test firmware releases, investigate development and QA issues, and maintain technical documentation • Share knowledge and improve engineering practices within the Firmware & Hardware chapter • Work in a project squad led by a PM for day-to-day delivery while participating in the Firmware & Hardware chapter

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in embedded or firmware development • Strong hands-on experience with C / C++ for embedded systems • Hands-on experience with embedded Linux build systems such as Yocto Project or Buildroot • Good understanding of the Linux kernel, device drivers, and the device tree • CI/CD experience for embedded projects, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI • Experience with bootloaders, particularly U-Boot • Experience with embedded constraints: timing, memory, peripherals, boot time, and power consumption • Ability to debug firmware and hardware-adjacent problems using JTAG/SWD, serial logs, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes • Comfort reading schematics, datasheets, technical documentation, and errata • Familiarity with UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO, or similar embedded interfaces • Proficiency with Bash and/or Python for automation and testing • Solid Git skills and comfort collaborating on GitHub, including pull requests, code reviews, and shared repositories • Good command of written and spoken English, minimum B2 • Ownership, self-reliance, and responsibility for assigned work • Clear communication with engineers, PMs, QA, and clients • Problem-solving mindset • Freelance availability on a time-and-material basis • Nice-to-have experience includes multiple platforms, embedded Linux toolchains, ARM Cortex-M, FreeRTOS or Zephyr, Bluetooth/BLE, TCP/IP, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, MQTT, multimedia/audio technologies, embedded security, sensor integration, power profiling, Docker, and personal GitHub or GitLab projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Truly flexible hours • Fully remote across Europe • Access to internal knowledge-sharing: tech talks, experiments, side projects • Structured ramp-up period with a technical buddy • Progressive tasks and early, frequent feedback • Potential to join the core team with a fixed salary and full benefits package after the initial freelance period • Paid leave and medical benefits with the permanent contract (not included during the freelance period)