Embedded Systems Engineer II in London

Trusted Connectivity for AI-Powered Dominance. Everfox delivers trusted connectivity to protect the world’s most critical environments and safeguard the sensitive data powering decision advantage. Built for mission-critical operations, Everfox protects what matters most by securing how data moves, how users access it, and how threats are neutralized across every domain. We enable mission speed and secure collaboration across networks, domains, and allies, while ensuring the data powering AI and advanced analytics remains trusted and protected.

Our Purpose: Protect what matters most by enabling organizations to operate security in the most complex and high-risk digital environments.

Our Vision: To be the most trusted authority in high-assurance cybersecurity, enabling secure collaboration across every domain.

Our Belief: Security should never limit mission success – it should enable it.

Our Promise: We deliver absolute confidence in environments where failure is not an option.

In this role, you will get to be involved in developing software across all our platforms, working as part of a team that creates new products and capabilities, contributing to all aspects of product engineering within the team. With support from experienced Engineers in the team, you will contribute to the designing, developing and testing of new solutions, as well as understanding and contributing to open-source projects. On top of this, you’ll get to work on newly funded and very exciting R&D projects, building prototype solutions for our next products.

Engineers at Everfox work with a range of technologies, ensuring the quality, security, and maintainability of your code, helping us to secure some of the world’s largest government and enterprise organizations.

Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid, 2-3 days per week)

Key Responsibilities:

• Product software development
• Hardware validation and board bring-up activities, collaborating with the hardware and firmware team, to prove new designs.
• Developing and maintaining board support packages, at the foundation of the software powering Everfox’s hardsec solutions.
• Contributing to scoping and design of new software through planning and task estimation.
• Performing end-to-end integration and test of software, firmware and hardware.
• Integrate embedded software with hardware and firmware to deliver prototypes of new features and products.
• Develop automated tests for Everfox hardware, based on Python and pytest.
• Perform manual tests on Everfox hardware considering functional and performance angles.
• Maintenance of 3rd party open-source projects such as Linux kernel, Yocto and AOSP.
• Upstreaming of bugfixes.
• Port latest upstream versions to Everfox BSPs.
• Continuous improvement of code through code reviews, refactoring and adoption of new technologies.
• Focus on automation by utilizing continuous integration practices and tools.
• Recognizing the industry that Everfox operates in and appreciating the importance of following our information security policies.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• A passion for technology and a keen interest in developing embedded software for commercial solutions.
• Collaborative approach with excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively both as part of a team and individually.
• Some knowledge of multiple programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Python).
• Core computer science concepts such as concurrency, networking, performance measurement and algorithms.
• Practical exposure to development boards (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and/or embedded systems (IoT devices).
• Prior experience with building and debugging the Linux Kernel.

As an employee, we’d be delighted if you have:

• Self-motivation, whilst being flexible and adaptable, able to cope when thrown in at the deep end.
• You’ll likely enjoy technical challenges and delivering results!
• An understanding of the importance of planning, prioritization and getting work done to schedule.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is: £39,000.00-53,000.00 GBP. The actual salary offered may vary within the range based on a candidates' unique experience, locale, and business needs. In addition to base salary and either bonus or commission, Everfox offers a generous benefits package including competitive annual leave, pension match, PMI, dental, health cash plan, income protection, in a hybrid work environment. Our Talent Acquisition team will provide specific information regarding salary and benefits offerings.

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. If there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

Everfox is an equal employment opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination. Everfox does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, medical condition, or any other category protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to humanresources@everfox.com.

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