Embedded System Engineer - Vsoc

Responsibilities:
Own end-to-end delivery of Virtual SoC (vSoC) platforms, architecture, planning, execution, quality, and mentoring.
Lead the virtualisation and platform enablement roadmap across Linux / Android / QNX / AUTOSAR and associated BSPs, drivers, and toolchains.
Develop and enhance Virtual SoC platforms for presilicon and early software bringup.
Own BSP, Linux, QNX kernel, driver development, and system-level integration for embedded platforms.
Work with virtualisation layers, including Hypervisors and Guest Virtual Machines (GVM).
Define vSoC architecture, partitioning, and performance KPIs (CPU/GPU/DSP/accelerators).
Build and debug system components using C, CMake, crosscompilers.
Perform advanced debugging using GDB, tracing tools, logs, and memory analysis
Lead virtualisation strategy, VM topology, VirtIO device models, interVM comms.
Integrate bootloaders, device tree configurations, and board-specific initialisation.
Create automation scripts using Shell and Python for build, test, and deployment pipelines.
Collaborate with hardware, platform, and QA teams to support bring-up on virtual and physical.
Prepare high-quality technical documentation, test reports, and integration guides.
Requirements:
8+ years of hands-on embedded software development experience.
Strong expertise in Virtual SoC, simulation-based development, and platform bring-up.
Deep knowledge of Linux / QNX BSP, kernel internals, device drivers, and low-level SW.
Virtualisation (KVM, ACRN, Xen, Type1 hypervisors), VirtIO device, VM configuration.
BSP, bootloaders (UBoot/UEFI), kernel configuration.
Linux internals: device tree, udev, SELinux (Android), QNX OS internals, AUTOSAR familiarity.
Driver development: multimedia/display, GPU, Ethernet, storage, IPC.
GPU/Compute: OpenGL ES, OpenCL, media codecs.
Networking: Ethernet, VLANs, routing, diagnostics.
Debug: JTAG, gdb/kgdb, ftrace, perf, tracing, logs.
Solid experience with Hypervisors, virtualisation frameworks, and VM integration.
Hands-on experience with Yocto or Buildroot for system image creation and customisation.
Good understanding of ARM/RISCV architecture, memory maps, interrupts, and boot flows.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
Experience in analysing kernel panics, race conditions, performance bottlenecks, and stability
Familiarity with embedded communication protocols: I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, USB, Ethernet
System-level topics like power management, clock configuration, and hardware abstraction
Strong C/C++ for kernel/driver space; POSIX; scripting (Python/Bash).
Graphics/Multimedia stacks (Mesa, DRM/KMS, GStreamer), OpenGL ES, OpenCL.
Networking stack and Ethernet driver flows (PHY/MAC, NAPI).
Understand and customise QNX boot flow, including: IPL (Initial Program Loader), Startup, procnto, IFS image creation
Extra Skills:
Exposure RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, QNX RT components).
Familiarity with U-Boot customisation and boot-flow optimisation.
Understanding of Network stacks, IPC mechanisms, and distributed embedded architectures.

Experience
9-13 yrs