Embedded Systems Engineer @ Everfox

Cyber Crime; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

Intelligent. Dynamic. Resilient.

Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has been defending the world’s most critical data and networks against the most complex cyber threats imaginable for more than 25 years. As trailblazers in defense-grade, high assurance cyber security, we have been leading the way in developing and delivering innovative cyber security technology. We protect data wherever it resides.

Job Title: Embedded Systems Engineer

Reporting line: Product Group

Primary Work Location: Waterloo, London (hybrid, 2 days a week)

Our working culture

We are an exciting SME with ground-breaking technology; a very serious mission to solve real world problems, but with a positive working atmosphere, and an excellent work/life balance!

At Everfox we’re focused on continuously improving equality for the benefit of our employees, products and community. We recruit, develop and retain talent purely on the basis of qualifications, merit and business needs.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take every possible step to ensure that every person employed or seeking employment with us receives fair treatment.

Our employee benefits package is as follows:

• 25 days holiday allowance per year (with the opportunity to purchase more)
• Flexible bank holidays - Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day all available for exchange
• Pension scheme of up to 8% base salary (matching employee contribution)
• Education reimbursement program of up to £4,000
• Hybrid working allowance, to help get your home office set up
• Enhanced parental leave
• Perkbox discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible working hours
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Daily fruit, breakfast and drinks in our offices

Overview of the role

As an Embedded Systems Engineer at Everfox, you will be involved in developing software across all our platforms and creating new products and capabilities, contributing to all aspects of product engineering within the team and taking the lead on creating software components for our current and future products.

You will contribute to the designing, developing and testing 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 organisations.

Due to sensitive customer requirements, applicants should be eligible for UK government security clearance, and willing to go through the process if required.

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.

Integration, test and sustainment

• 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.
• Security reviews and patching.
• Upstreaming of bugfixes.
• Port latest upstream versions to Everfox BSPs.

Continuous improvement and innovation

• Continuous improvement of code through code reviews, refactoring and adoption of new technologies.
• Focus on automation by utilising continuous integration practices and tools.
• Recognising the industry that Everfox operates in and appreciating the importance of following our information security policies.

Required knowledge, skills and experience

• Professional experience of developing embedded software for commercial solutions.
• Some prior exposure to mentoring/coaching less experienced Engineers.
• Collaborative approach with excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively both as part of a team and individually.
• Demonstrable knowledge of multiple programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Python).
• Demonstrable knowledge of core computer science concepts such as concurrency, networking, performance measurement and algorithms.
• Experience working with development boards (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and/or embedded systems (IoT devices).
• Experience with the Linux OS, and ideally kernel or bootloaders.
• Eligibility for UK government security clearance.

Ideally you will have familiarity with the following technologies, but if not, we will support our learning in these areas:

• Writing portable code, using different toolchains and cross-compiling software.
• Understanding of Linux kernel drivers and kernel maintenance and patching.
• Board bring-up activities, use of oscilloscope / logic analyser, debugging and benchmarking of hardware platforms.
• Build systems such as Make and CMake.
• Yocto project, both using 3rd party layers as well as defining new recipes.
• AOSP.
• Exposure to large codebases.
• Network debugging experience.
• CI tools (Gitlab, Bamboo, Jenkins, …).
• Video encoding standards and streaming techniques.
• Audio/Video pipelines in embedded systems.

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

• Passion for technology, demonstrated through prior professional and/or personal project work.
• You’ll likely enjoy technical challenges and delivering results!
• Self-motivation, whilst being flexible and adaptable, able to cope when thrown in at the deep end.
• An understanding of the importance of planning, prioritisation and getting work done to schedule.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is: £33,200.00-48,100.00 GBP.

The actual salary offered may vary within the range based on a candidates' unique experience, locale, and business needs. In addition to a base salary and bonus plans, Everfox offers a generous benefits package including flexible PTO, a 401k match, and contribution to healthcare coverages.