Sr. Embedded SDE, Hardware Compute Group

Sr. Embedded SDE, Hardware Compute Group

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and the Astro personal robot. What will you help us create? Work hard. Have fun. Make history. We are looking for a Sr. Embedded Software Development Engineer with a strong background in SOC Security to help design our security systems in our next generation devices. In this role you will work with system architects, program managers and hardware engineers to implement security features and assess security software architecture for our next generation devices. You will be responsible for the development of real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements security controls for the platform.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements security controls and features for the platform
• Work closely with system architects, program managers, and hardware engineers to design and integrate security solutions into the next generation of Amazon devices
• Assess security software architecture and provide recommendations to improve the overall security posture of the platform
• Implement cryptographic algorithms, secure boot, and other security primitives in the embedded software stack
• Develop security monitoring and telemetry capabilities to detect and mitigate security threats
• Perform security code reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability analysis to identify and remediate security issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security requirements are met throughout the product development lifecycle
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends, vulnerabilities, and mitigation techniques in the embedded systems domain
• Mentor other engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ 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
• Experience with design, implementation, support, and evaluation of security-focused tools and services
• Knowledge of security technology and concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Single sign-on, Cryptography, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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
• Experience in computer architecture, or experience writing low level drivers

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Posted: December 24, 2025 (Updated about 2 hours ago)

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