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QBayLogic is hiring two to three embedded software engineers, at least one of them senior, for our bittide project. You’ll work with Martijn Bastiaan, team lead on the bittide project.
The project implements bittide’s clock control on a test vehicle board for a new PHY/SERDES. On each board, the PHY reports the phase difference between the received signal and the board’s internal PLL and/or external reference clock. Your firmware uses that measurement to adjust the external reference clock. Over 2027 the work grows from bring-up of a single board to a multi-board testbed. That testbed will demonstrate syntony (frequency agreement between nodes), gather frequency-deviation statistics, and show how the system behaves when links fail and recover.
The firmware runs on an NXP MCX N947 microcontroller and will be written in Rust (with C++ as a fallback). We work together with a PCB design partner, who is responsible for the board and for regular PHY operation. Your focus is the clock-control system. You’ll also be involved early: you’ll help specify the board, and later you’ll help find faults in it.
The schedule runs from Q4 2026 to Q4 2027, with a new firmware release roughly every quarter. The deadlines are tight and fixed. We need people who organise their own work, understand how their part fits into the whole, and keep an eye on the price of every decision. Attitude matters more to us than years of experience: if you have around two years of demonstrable experience doing this kind of work, we’d like to hear from you.
We start with a fixed-term contract, with the option to extend to a permanent position. Freelance or contracting arrangements are also possible.
Application deadline: October 31st, 2026
