Firmware Engineer, Amazon
Amazon Robotic Firmware Team
Office located in Westborough, MA or North Reading, MA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Westborough, MA or North Reading, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate embodies a deep passion for crafting customer-centric solutions and thrives on not only on finding innovative answers to challenging questions, but also in the collaboration with other teams
- 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
- High level of proficiency with C/C++ and Python
- Hands-on system experience with Linux, including device drivers and multicore systems
- Proven experience diagnosing and debugging complex, difficult, multi-variable system issues
- Hands on experience with embedded or real-time operating systems, such as Free RTOS, RT Linux or Micrium
- Has successfully performed as a team member or technical lead on a complex project
- Proficient oral and written communication skills. Collaborates well in a team environment
Desirable
- 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
- Architecture or development of robotic control systems
- Performed low level board bring-up or developed HAL code or BSPs for custom hardware
- Exposure to networking, communications systems, and data security
- Understanding of RF and wireless communications, especially 802.11
- Hands on development with sensors such as cameras, 3DTOF sensors, or other visions systems
- Experience developing safety certified systems, especially experience with IEC 61508
- Experience handling and analyzing large data sets and with AWS
What the job involves
- This enthusiastic candidate takes great pride ensuring that our products meet Amazon-scale while setting new benchmarks for performance and maintainability
- Develop and maintain robotic systems for the world's largest autonomous robot fleet
- Contribute to the architectural design of complex systems and collaborate with peers and other teams to find solutions to challenging problems
- Contribute valuable feedback during peer reviews and effectively communicate with technical leadership
- Contribute to the development of new and innovative solutions in a high-paced R&D environment
- Engineer solutions that strike a harmonious balance between top-notch performance and uncompromising resilience and continue to elevate both
- Master various components including networking and WiFi, security, navigation, obstacle detection, motor control, and diverse sensors
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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