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Amazon Embedded Linux/Android Engineer, CoRo in Bangalore, India
Description
Excited about robotics, and how it will be used in our daily lives? The Amazon Consumer Robotics group is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making the future closer than ever.
Astro is Amazon’s first household robot to use AI and Intelligent Motion to gracefully and intuitively interact with people and spaces. It is different kind of robot, one that’s designed to help customers with a range of tasks like home monitoring and keeping in touch with family. It brings together new advancements in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor technology, voice and edge computing in a package that’s designed to be helpful and convenient.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams. We are looking for a talented and passionate Software Engineer to be part of an exciting team building device software. 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
• 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
• Build expertise in one or more core technologies such as motor control
• Perform tasks including debug, bring-up, Beta and production software development
• Successfully collaborate with both software and hardware product teams
• A day in the life
• As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop high quality embedded software. You will also have the opportunity to influence the product roadmap, define key components of overall system architecture and lead the adoption of best practices within the org. You will work closely with cross functional teams to bring a unified embedded control software solution for our customers.
A day in the life
As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop high quality embedded software. You will also have the opportunity to influence the product roadmap, define key components of overall system architecture and lead the adoption of best practices within the org. You will work closely with cross functional teams to bring a unified embedded control software solution for our customers.
About the team
Platform Software team owns all the components and infrastructure on which Astro and next generation of products are built. Astro is already working in customer homes with more devices added every day. The team is responsible for defining architecture for next generation of product and execute it. The team develops embedded software using programming languages like C, C++ on both RTOS and general purpose linux OS.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
Basic Qualifications
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
Experience in C, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms Python, Mathematics/Linear Algebra.
Design and implement core board support package (BSP) and customization for Android and or Linux components.
Design & Development of Device drivers, software frameworks, software stacks and porting of kernel components.
Define development model and software APIs for hardware interaction. Work closely with other internal customers including hardware/Software teams.
Experience in investigating, designing, prototyping and delivering new and innovative system solutions.
Working knowledge and understanding of building & utilizing Open Source Software.
Preferred Qualifications
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
Excellent judgement, organizational and problem-solving skills.
Can thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities.
Excellent communication skills including verbal, written and listening.
Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
Can mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
Comfortable taking initiative and working across teams
Excellence in technical communication with peers, partners, and non-technical co-workers