Lead Embedded Firmware - Rust for Safety-Critical Robotics

Amazon; Town of Westboro (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Prescription coverage

Life & AD&D

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible Spending Accounts

Adoption support

EAP

Mental health support

Job summary

Amazon in Wisconsin is seeking a senior firmware engineer to lead the design and architecture of safety-rated sensor processing firmware in Rust for autonomous robot fleets.

You will collaborate with hardware and navigation teams to ensure system correctness and compliance with IEC 61508 functional safety standards, while guiding junior engineers and managing critical RTOS-based systems.

Qualifications

• Requires 6+ years of professional software development experience with Rust or C/C++ for embedded systems.
• Experience in technical leadership, RTOS, and designing safety-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of safety-rated sensor processing firmware.
• Collaborate with hardware and navigation teams to ensure system correctness and IEC 61508 compliance.

Skills

Rust

C++

Embedded Software

RTOS

Functional Safety

IEC 61508

Sensor Processing

Multi-core Platforms

Firmware Architecture

Signal Processing

Point Cloud Processing

Device Drivers

gRPC

Protobuf

ROS/ROS2

Linux

Tools

Device Drivers

gRPC

Protobuf

ROS/ROS2

Job description

Amazon in Wisconsin is seeking a senior firmware engineer to lead the design and architecture of safety-rated sensor processing firmware in Rust for autonomous robot fleets.

You will collaborate with hardware and navigation teams to ensure system correctness and compliance with IEC 61508 functional safety standards, while guiding junior engineers and managing critical RTOS-based systems.