Embedded Software Development Engineer SDE II Dash Cart Firmware System Interfaces

** Candidates for this role may be based out of either our Boston Metrowest (Hudson MA) or Seaport/Fort Point (Boston MA) location. Candidates will occasionally visit both locations **

Amazon Dash Cart is a new smart shopping cart that makes grocery trips quick and safe by allowing shoppers to skip the checkout line. The shopper just places items in the cart and the cart takes care of the rest. When finished shopping the shopper leaves the store through a designated dash cart lane the charge is applied to the payment method for their Amazon account and they get a receipt by email. Designed and custombuilt by Amazonians the Dash Cart uses a variety of technologies including computer vision sensor fusion and advanced machine learning. Check it out at is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths most customercentric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision machine learning distributed systems and hardware design.

We are seeking a passionate and experienced embedded SDE to join our team and help us reimagine how to drive innovation scale and efficiency throughout our product lifecycle. The SDE must have industryleading technical abilities that enable them to achieve the highest levels of product quality and to develop products at scale. The ideal candidate will have a curiosity for developing new technologies. The SDE will collaborate with crossfunctional teams such as hardware application software cloud development machine learning and computer vision teams helping us to deliver exciting new products to market.

The SDE should be a skilled problem solver with the ability to implement and deliver software given welldefined requirements and expectations with minimal direction. The ideal candidate will have experience with and understanding of the full software lifecycle including working backwards from customers software design implementation testing and deployment operations and documentation. They should be someone that has a history of writing high quality code and will help coach others to do the same.

The SDE should be an effective troubleshooter and will have an understanding of root cause analysis. For this role good communication and listening skills are also essential as the SDE will often have to work with peers and other teams to ensure that their work is aligned with stakeholder needs.

Key job responsibilities
The SDE will develop Linux drivers for advanced sensors used on the Dash Cart implement APIs and services in Linux that allow applications to interface with these devices and implement cloudbased metrics logging and alarms in the AWS cloud used to monitor these systems.

The SDE will write lowlevel firmware for microcontrollers and other devices on the cart that do not use a highlevel operating system (e.g. bare metal or RTOS applications). The SDE will implement secure applications for overtheair (OTA) programming of these devices.

The SDE often works handson with sensors and devices and must have a good understanding of low level protocols for communicating with these devices such as I2C SPI UART and USB. The SDE will often work with sensors and devices that require some understanding of physics and electrical engineering principles.

A day in the life
The SDE will spend most of their time writing and testing code that lives on the Dash Cart. Much of this work will be hands on developing interfaces for sensors and devices that interact with the physical world. Their products may be lowlevel Linux drivers MCU firmware services running in an embedded Linux system or cloudbased applications. The SDE will coordinate regularly with electrical machine learning cloud development and application software teams that rely on our products for their systems to function. The SDE will participate in Sprint planning and retrospective meetings and design review meetings and code reviews.

About the team
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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience writing low level drivers
Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware
3 years of embedded firmware development experience
3 years of computer science fundamentals (objectoriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

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