Embedded Firmware Engineer ENA Team

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Working for Annapurna Labs is thrilling fastpaced and a constant learning experience. As an ENA Firmware SW development engineer you will be responsible for developing features for Annapurna Labs nextgeneration hardware to enable high network bandwidth and packetsperseconds (PPS) performance with consistently low latency. You will work to bring up a broad selection of instance types optimized for various use cases to suit each of our customers needs such as varying combinations of CPU memory storage and networking capabilities. As an ENA Firmware SW development engineer you will play a key role in shaping architecture definitions and SW system designs and help to resolve complex customer issues. You will continuously evolve technically while working to monitor AWS cloud health maintain high quality standards develop highlyoptimized code and provide exceptional customer satisfaction.

Annapurna Labs as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) develops innovative hardware and software for AWS cloud customers. Annapurna Labs is like a big startup in AWS. We develop cuttingedge technologies work with amazingly talented engineers and truly shape the future. Thanks to our teams breadth of professional engineers we have been able to improve AWS cloud networking infrastructure with products such as Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD). Our products are at the heart of the cloud playing a key role and used by millions and millions of customers!


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. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
5 years of professional experience in SW development
5 years of handson experience in C development with a mindset for developing optimized code

Multicore / multithreaded coding experience
Handson experience developing Firmware and/or user space drivers for embedded systems
Handson experience with lowlevel SW development and HW devices
Experience with realtime performance profiling and optimization
Handson experience developing in a Linux environment
Experience with networking protocols

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