Embedded Software Engineer

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

The Role:
We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. As an Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, including Amazon Robotics.

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 cutting edge 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
• Design, develop and verify firmware and drivers 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
• Successfully collaborate with both software and hardware product teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of experience as a embedded engineer
• Experience in one or more of these areas: cameras, sensors and associated algorithm development
• Experience in embedded software design, development and debugging preferably on ARM based platforms
• Experience in coding in C/C++
• Experience with RTOS and embedded Linux development
• Experience in Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Board level experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong debugging/trouble-shooting skills of embedded systems
• Expertise with Linux kernel and device driver development
• Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
• Experience with ARM based SOC architecture
• Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Can mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
• Comfortable taking initiative and working across teams
• Excellence in technical communication with peers, partners, and non-technical co-workers