External job description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced ground-breaking 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 design, development, optimization and maintenance of DSP firmware, Linux drivers and middleware for audio on embedded products.
Key responsibilities 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 multi-task and learn new technologies quickly
About the team Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
Basic Qualifications 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields
3+ 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)
Preferred Qualifications 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Masters or PhD
Experience supporting shipping Android and Linux based IOT devices
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