
The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced customer enticing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo.
We are looking for talented and motivated embedded software development engineer to join the team, innovate and build next generation Amazon Echo devices that deliver intuitive and intelligent voice assistant to millions of customers with many exciting features!
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a talented and passionate Embedded Software Engineer to be part of an exciting team. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of net generation products used every day, by people you know. In this role, you will:
• Be responsible for system architecture and development of new features for embedded systems
• Investigate, prototype and deliver new and innovative system solutions
• Profile, Analyze and optimize system level performance
• Design, develop and verify firmware for embedded systems
• Participate in design reviews, API development, and documentation
• Work with new technologies that are vital to product development
• Deliver investigation plans and reports, architectural documents, design specs, software and firmware source code, build scripts
• Perform tasks including debug, bring-up, Beta and production software development
• Collaborate with both software and hardware product teams
A day in the life
In this role, you will work in a collaborative environment with internal and external teams to bring new silicon and peripheral technologies to life. You will design and implement embedded software to form the core of our devices, working through hardware bring-up from early silicon to production. You will craft your software from requirements, designs, code, test, to product deployment. You need to navigate technical ambiguity, making priority calls in order to develop solutions with high quality.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of building production software experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with embedded systems
- Experience debugging and systems analysis to identify and quickly resolve or mitigate issues
- Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
- Linux on ARM CPUs
- JTAG experience
- System Profiling tools experience
- Strong debugging/trouble-shooting skills of embedded systems
- Expertise with Linux kernel and application software development
- Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
- Knowledge in serial interface protocols like I2C and SPI
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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