Embedded Firmware Engineer - Prime Air Drone

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and test embedded features for the Prime Air Drone platform. You will work with hardware teams to enable new computing functionality and address complex performance issues.

The role requires hands-on firmware development in C/C++, strong debugging skills, and a history of contributing to large-scale software architectures. Seattle-based, with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design of new/current systems, or general debugging of hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and test critical features for embedded applications and platforms powering Prime Air Drone.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement fixes for complex issues.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable new computing hardware and functionality.

Skills

Embedded firmware development

C/C++

Architecture design patterns

Root cause analysis

Software development life cycle

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Board bring-up

Logic analyzers

Oscilloscopes

Source control

Build processes

Job description

Amazon Prime Air is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and test embedded features for the Prime Air Drone platform. You will work with hardware teams to enable new computing functionality and address complex performance issues.

The role requires hands-on firmware development in C/C++, strong debugging skills, and a history of contributing to large-scale software architectures. Seattle-based, with competitive compensation and benefits.