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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Alexa Devices in Austin, Texas
Description
The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo.
We are looking for talented and motivated software development engineer to join the team, innovate and build cutting edge 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 cutting edge products used every day, by people you know. In 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
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's 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+Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
Understanding of embedded development constraints
Data analysis and debugging skills
Strong 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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