External job description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the bestselling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
We are looking for an Embedded Software Development Engineer to help design develop integrate our next generation devices.
In this role you will work with customers system architects program managers and hardware engineers to design implement troubleshoot fix kernel drivers Audio SW BSP for our next generation devices.
You will be responsible for the development of realtime embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements audio features.
Key job responsibilities
If you have one or more of the below skills then this job is for you:
Expertise in ALSA / Pulse Audio
Exposure to Audio software stack on Android/QNX/proprietary OS including Audio Flinger Audio HAL
Exposure to ARM DSP architectures
Exposure to Dolby MS12 / DTS/ MPEGTS
Exposure to Audio/Video Sync
Exposure to STB / DTV audio systems
Working knowledge of Oscilloscope Logic Analyzer and Audio Tools including Audio Precision
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Design audio features that work across various embedded products
Develop audio software that runs on ARM/DSP using Bare metal Linux and other high level OSes
Optimization and porting audio and speech processing algorithms
Integration of vendor hardware and software stacks
Tune hardware for highest audio performance and lowest noise
Be passionate responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment
Be able and willing to multitask and learn new technologies quickly
About the team
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the bestselling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
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
Basic qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related fields
3 years as Application Engineering experience
2 years in embedded development preferably ARM systems
5 years programming experience in C/C
Linux kernel and application development and focus on stability efficiency and performance.
Knowledge of Android platform and development environment.
System scripting and building environment
Experience with embedded system concepts and hardware interfaces such as JTAG UART SPI I2C ROM Microcode Custom ASIC/FPGAs x86 and ARM chipset and firmware security (TPM UEFI TrustZone Secure/Measured Boot JTAG PCIe)
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
Preferred qualifications
Masters or PhD
Experience supporting shipping Android and Linux based IOT devices
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