Software Developer - Kernel Engineer, SSG

Description  The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced ground breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

As a 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:
- Developing/modifying BSP: this can include bootloaders (ATF or OPTEE or u-boot), 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
- USB driver experience
Basic Qualifications  - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- Hands-on experience in any of boot-loaders (ATF or OPTEE or u-boot)
- Hand-on experience in Linux kernel internal
- Proven experience in the Device controller or host client drivers

Preferred Qualifications  - Development experience in Silicon Software
- HSIO devices (USB or eMMC or PCIE ) and LSIO devices (I2C, SPI, DMA, PWM etc.) driver experience

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