Parallel Laboratories

We are seeking a highly skilled Bare Metal Engineer with strong low-level programming expertise and hands-on experience working directly with hardware. The ideal candidate will design, develop, debug, and optimize firmware and embedded systems without reliance on operating systems.

Required Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in embedded systems or bare-metal development.
• Proven experience working without operating systems (no RTOS/Linux abstraction layers).
• Experience bringing up new hardware boards from scratch.

Technical Skills:

Programming

• Expert-level proficiency in C (mandatory).
• Strong experience with C++ (preferred).
• Assembly language experience (ARM, RISC-V, or similar architectures).
• Experience writing linker scripts and startup code.

Hardware & Architecture

• Deep understanding of microcontrollers (ARM Cortex-M/A, RISC-V, etc.).
• Experience with peripherals (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, GPIO, DMA, ADC).
• Strong knowledge of memory-mapped I/O and interrupt handling.
• Experience reading and interpreting hardware datasheets and schematics.

Debugging & Tools

• JTAG/SWD debugging experience.
• Familiarity with tools such as:
  • GDB
  • OpenOCD
  • Logic analyzers
  • Oscilloscopes
• Experience with cross-compilation toolchains (GCC, Clang).
• Build systems (Make, CMake).

System-Level Knowledge

• Bootloaders and startup sequence development.
• Low-level memory management.
• Performance optimization in resource-constrained systems.
• Power management techniques.
• Knowledge of CPU architecture and instruction pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with secure boot and hardware security modules.
• Experience with automotive (AUTOSAR), IoT, or industrial systems.
• Familiarity with FPGA interfacing.
• Experience with safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508).
• Prior experience in silicon bring-up.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Ability to work closely with hardware engineers.
• Self-driven and able to work independently.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain bare-metal firmware.
• Bring up new hardware platforms.
• Optimize system performance and memory footprint.
• Write device drivers from scratch.
• Conduct hardware-level debugging and validation.
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, and system teams.
• Review code and enforce best practices.

Deliverables

• Production-ready firmware.
• Hardware bring-up reports.
• Technical documentation.
• Test and validation plans.