Embedded Systems Engineer - FPGA Platform
Infleqtion2 months ago
Kidlington, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop embedded Linux software, firmware, and board-support packages for FPGA-based embedded systems.
- Build and deploy embedded Linux distributions using Yocto, Buildroot, or similar tools.
- Develop device-tree configurations, low-level drivers, and hardware interfaces for FPGA peripherals, sensors, communications devices, and microcontrollers.
- Integrate FPGA SoC platforms, microcontrollers, electronics, and higher-level software into control, acquisition, timing, signal-processing, and communications systems.
- Perform board bring-up, hardware–firmware integration, automated testing, debugging, and validation using Python and benchtop test equipment.
- Produce maintainable software and technical documentation across prototyping, deployment, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with software, electronics, physics, and technician teams while communicating technical risks, findings, and design decisions.
- Own assigned work from requirements definition through implementation, testing, and delivery.
Requirements
- Strong experience developing embedded Linux on FPGA SoC platforms.
- Experience configuring, building, and deploying embedded Linux distributions with Yocto, Buildroot, or similar tools, including FPGA board-support package integration.
- Experience with board bring-up, bootloaders, the Linux kernel, device trees, drivers, and software deployment.
- Experience developing in C/C++ and Rust, or willingness to develop in Rust, for embedded Linux or microcontroller systems.
- Experience with Xilinx tools, ideally Vivado.
- Experience with Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, GPIO, DMA, ADC, and DAC interfaces.
- Python experience in test automation, instrument control, or analysis.
- Proficiency with Git and CI systems and the ability to work in multidisciplinary hardware, software, and physics teams.
- Desirable experience includes VHDL or Verilog FPGA development on Xilinx FPGAs, high-throughput data acquisition, streaming, buffering, multi-core processing, RF sensing, timing, synchronization, and signal processing.
- Desirable experience includes networked instrumentation and SCPI, VXI-11/LXI, MQTT, gRPC, or REST APIs.
- Systems and requirements engineering experience, including UML or SysML, and experience managing or improving CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time position based in the Kidlington, Oxford office.
- Hybrid working policy allowing full-time employees to work from home up to 2 days per week when work permits.
- Up to 10% travel, including international travel, may be required.
- Bonus program and incentive stock option plan.
- Unlimited PTO subject to fair usage.
- Company pension contribution of 10% regardless of employee contribution.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and tax-efficient technology schemes.
- BUPA private healthcare insurance after successful completion of the probationary period.
- Life assurance valued at 4 times salary.
About Infleqtion
Infleqtion builds neutral-atom quantum systems for computing, networking, and precision sensing, along with the Superstaq software platform. It sells quantum computers, optical clocks, RF receivers, and inertial sensors to government and commercial customers in sectors such as defense, space, energy, and telecommunications. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, Infleqtion is publicly listed on the NYSE (ticker: INFQ) and operates across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.