Senior SDE- Kernel Engineer, SSG

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Devices designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including Kindle and Echo family. We seek a Sr Kernel Engineer to build the kernel stack and BSP for various SoCs with custom hardware accelerators for devices across our product line.

You will develop drivers, manage bring-up, and optimize OS performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver silicon solutions and ensure successful product launches.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience in embedded systems.
• Strong background in kernel and BSP development for SoCs with hardware accelerators.
• Experience mentoring teams and leading architecture decisions.
• Hands-on debugging of complex hardware-software integration issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop and modify BSP components: bootloaders, device drivers, kernel modules, and device trees.
• Collaborate with architecture teams to define silicon features and bring up platforms pre- and post-silicon.
• Debug and root-cause complex issues across HW-SW interfaces in embedded devices.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to productize silicon solutions for timely delivery.
• Optimize OS and kernel performance for supported features and workloads.
• Contribute across product lifecycle stages (HVT, EVT, DVT, PVT) and ensure integration across hardware, firmware, and software.

Skills

ARM v8/v9

Kernel development

Embedded Linux

C/C++

Leadership

Mentor

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Yocto

U-Boot

TF-A

OP-TEE

SCP

Device Tree

Job description

Description 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. What will you help us create?

Description 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. What will you help us create?
As a Sr 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

• Develop and modify Board Support Package (BSP) components: This includes bootloaders (TF-A, OP-TEE, SCP, U-Boot), device drivers, kernel modules, and device tree support.
• Collaborate with architecture teams to define and implement innovative silicon features.
• Perform initial silicon and platform bring-up in both pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Debug and root-cause complex issues across hardware and software interfaces.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to productize silicon solutions and ensure successful product delivery.
• Optimize OS and kernel solutions to achieve excellent performance for supported features.
• Contribute throughout product development stages including HVT, EVT, DVT, and PVT phases.
• Engage with diverse cross-functional teams to ensure seamless feature integration and alignment across hardware, firmware, and software components.

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
• Hands-on experience with ARM v8/v9 architecture profiles, including understanding of instruction sets, memory models, and security features.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex system-level issues on embedded devices, including hardware-software integration challenges.

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
• Hands-on experience with embedded Linux Yocto distribution for custom BSP development.
• Strong knowledge of thermal management, power optimization, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience with high-speed interfaces including USB, eMMC, NAND, and PCIe.
• Proficiency with low-speed interfaces such as Pinmux, GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART, and PWM.
• Solid understanding of ARM security architecture, including ARM TrustZone technology.

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Company

ADCI - BLR 14 SEZ

Job ID: A10372180