Job Details

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.

As a Sr Kernel Engineer you will help build thekernel 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:

• Developing/modifying BSP: this can include bootloaders, device drivers, kernel and device tree support
• Performing initial hardware bring-up and system integration
• Maintaining/updating the embedded Linux Yocto distribution
• Maintaining a continuous integration environment, including packaging and deployment of software releases

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ 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

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