Senior Embedded Firmware Lead – Architect & Mentor

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join the Emerging Devices Software team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will drive design, architecture, and firmware for cutting‑edge embedded systems, collaborating with product, UX, PM, and hardware teams to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and mentoring fellow engineers across the full software development life cycle. A strong background in embedded firmware and system design is required.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for development of new features for embedded systems.
• Investigate, prototype and deliver new and innovative system solutions.
• Design, develop and verify firmware for embedded systems.
• Participate in design reviews, API development, and documentation.
• Work with new technologies that are vital to product development.
• Deliver investigation plans and reports, architectural documents, design specs, software and firmware source code, build scripts.
• Perform tasks including debug, bring-up, Beta and production software development.
• Successfully collaborate with both software and hardware product teams.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship/Tech lead

Full SDLC

Programming languages

System design/architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join the Emerging Devices Software team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will drive design, architecture, and firmware for cutting‑edge embedded systems, collaborating with product, UX, PM, and hardware teams to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and mentoring fellow engineers across the full software development life cycle. A strong background in embedded firmware and system design is required.