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. What will you help us create
As a Sr Kernel Engineer you will help build the kernel stack and BSP for various SoCs with custom hardware accelerators to be deployed in a range of Amazon devices. You will develop software for industry standard and custom hardware IP to accelerate applications in machine learning computer vision and robotics.
In this role you will:
Develop and modify Board Support Package (BSP) components: This includes bootloaders (TF-A OP-TEE SCP U-Boot) device drivers kernel modules and device tree support.
Collaborate with architecture teams to define and implement innovative silicon features.
Perform initial silicon and platform bring-up in both pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
Debug and root-cause complex issues across hardware and software interfaces.
Partner with cross-functional teams to productize silicon solutions and ensure successful product delivery.
Optimize OS and kernel solutions to achieve excellent performance for supported features.
Contribute throughout product development stages including HVT EVT DVT and PVT phases.
Engage with diverse cross-functional teams to ensure seamless feature integration and alignment across hardware firmware and software components.
- 10 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 10 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 10 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 10 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
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