Embedded Firmware Engineer – Smart Home Devices

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 165,200 - 223,600; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Embedded Software Development Engineer to build and optimize firmware for Ring devices. You will work across the full embedded stack, from low-level drivers to application services, debugging complex hardware-software interactions in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.

Responsibilities include designing embedded software for RTOS/Linux, leading code reviews, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with hardware, cloud, mobile, and product teams to

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for Ring devices running on RTOS and Linux-based platforms.
• Own end-to-end debugging and root-cause analysis of system-level issues impacting device performance, power consumption, and customer experience.
• Drive technical decisions on embedded software architecture, balancing performance, memory footprint, and maintainability.
• Lead design and code reviews, championing engineering best practices and raising the quality bar across the team.
• Mentor junior engineers through hands-on technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with hardware, cloud, mobile, and product teams to define requirements and deliver cohesive, integrated solutions.
• Proactively identify and address systemic issues that affect device reliability and user satisfaction.
• Implement diagnostic tooling, metrics, and monitoring to improve system observability and accelerate issue resolution.

Skills

C++

Java

Perl

C#

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an Embedded Software Development Engineer to build and optimize firmware for Ring devices. You will work across the full embedded stack, from low-level drivers to application services, debugging complex hardware-software interactions in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.

Responsibilities include designing embedded software for RTOS/Linux, leading code reviews, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with hardware, cloud, mobile, and product teams to