Embedded Systems Engineer - Low-Level C/C++

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Illinois; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs Ltd., an Amazon company, seeks talented software development engineers to join our embedded teams working on low-level software close to hardware. You’ll design, implement, and optimize drivers, firmware, and HALs for custom silicon powering AWS services at scale.

You will collaborate with hardware teams, write performance-critical code in C/C++, and participate in architecture decisions while contributing to automated testing and robust software design patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in a relevant field.
• Experience designing or implementing low-level software and hardware interfaces.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and debugging complex hardware-software interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize low-level software including device drivers, firmware, and hardware abstraction layers.
• Collaborate with hardware design teams to define interfaces and bring up new silicon.
• Write performance-critical systems software in C/C++ with strict latency and resource constraints.
• Debug hardware-software interactions and contribute to system architecture decisions.
• Develop automated test frameworks to validate functionality and performance at scale.
• Participate in code reviews and drive engineering best practices within the team.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Low-level software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Annapurna Labs Ltd., an Amazon company, seeks talented software development engineers to join our embedded teams working on low-level software close to hardware. You’ll design, implement, and optimize drivers, firmware, and HALs for custom silicon powering AWS services at scale.

You will collaborate with hardware teams, write performance-critical code in C/C++, and participate in architecture decisions while contributing to automated testing and robust software design patterns.