Embedded and Firmware, Alexa Excellence

As a Software Development Engineer you will engage with an
experienced cross-disciplinary team to conceive design and
implement innovative consumer products. Vertically your
ownership can span across device framework network stack
OTA setup controllers drivers and low level wireless
controllers. Horizontally you will be given an opportunity to
work across multiple Echo devices. You are expected to have
strong working knowledge of Linux and RTOS. You will work
closely with the engineering leaders from cross functional
teams technical managers hardware operations application
platform and quality assurance teams. You must be responsive
flexible and able to succeed within an open and collaborative
peer environment. The team is responsible for the entire
firmware related user experience and use cases.

Key job responsibilities
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Experience in embedded development in C/C
- Implement the right metrics debug tools and integrate with backend solutions to continuously measure and improve on our solutions
- Development experience on Linux and RTOS platforms
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Work with cross functional teams to implement technical solutions for desired features and address customer issues.
- Work with teams to improve and tailor existing drivers stack memory footprint and application code to our needs
- Work with the hardware team to ensure correct exercising of hardware and software architecture.

About the team
The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Dash Buttons and Amazon Echo Family of devices. We are the team that brought you the Echo Show and Echo Spot touch-screen enabled Alexa devices that supports video calling music weather and more

- 3 years of embedded firmware development experience
- Experience in embedded development in C/C
- Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis)
- 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 with RTOS and embedded Linux development
- Board level experience

- Experience in embedded wireless systems or experience in computer architecture
- Performed low level board bring-up or developed HAL code or BSPs for custom hardware
- Deep hands-on experience in Linux/RTOS framework/drivers and Wi-Fi & Bluetooth stacks

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