Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

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

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

Our client is an international semiconductor company.

last updated 24 week of 2026

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