Embedded Software Dev Engineer, AWS Hardware Engineering

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop firmware solutions for AWS servers, contributing to server designs that power millions of customer workloads.
• Lead the complete development lifecycle from initial conception through production deployment, ensuring robust and scalable firmware implementations across our massive server fleet.
• Architect and implement firmware deployment strategies that minimize customer impact while maintaining the highest standards of security and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, validation teams, and software services to optimize functionality and performance.
• Explore and evaluate emerging technologies and their potential impact on AWS infrastructure, making recommendations for adoption and integration into our firmware stack.
• Drive technical solutions for problems, balancing security requirements, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
• Tailor firmware solutions specifically for the AWS environment, ensuring seamless integration with our unique infrastructure requirements and operational workflows.
• Mentor team members and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, tools, and best practices.

Most days, you'll dive into code—whether that's developing new security features, optimizing firmware deployment strategies, or debugging a tricky issue that's affecting a subset of servers.

You'll collaborate a lot. Maybe it's a quick sync with platform teams about an upcoming deployment, or a deeper technical discussion with hardware engineers about a new server design. You might work with internal customers to understand their requirements.

Some days you'll be architecting solutions to complex problems. Other days you might be mentoring a teammate through a code review or exploring a new technology that could improve our firmware stack.

• 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 in embedded development in C/C++.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of ARM CPUs.
• Experience writing low‑level drivers.
• Knowledge in one of communication protocols I2C, SPI, USB, UART.

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