Embedded Software Development Engineer, Alexa Devices

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 next generation products used every day by people you 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.

- Bachelors 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
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with embedded software
- Experience debugging and systems analysis to identify and quickly resolve or mitigate issues
- Experience using strong customer service communication and interpersonal skills
- 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 TX Austin - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually