Senior Embedded Software Architect (Rust/FPGA)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead embedded software on custom hardware, including FPGA SoCs, and help architect, develop, and integrate scalable, high-assurance systems in the AWS ecosystem.

You will guide cross-functional hardware and software teams, write Rust-based embedded software, review designs, mentor engineers, and champion code quality and secure software delivery for government-grade projects.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 3+ years of experience with C, C++, or Rust.
• Current, active TS/SCI security clearance or above.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in developing high assurance software systems.
• Develop embedded software using Rust, and integrate with third party libraries to build end to end high assurance 100G+ solutions.
• Develop low level drivers for ARM and RISC-V targets, Linux drivers and kernel modules, business logic, and scalable software solutions to interoperate with AWS services.
• Decompose cryptographic and security requirements from government standards into actionable software and hardware design specifications.
• Analyze and translate keying requirements including key generation, establishment, distribution, storage, and zeroization into embedded software implementations that meet government certification standards.
• Lead design and system engineers to perform tradeoffs and architect new solutions for customers.
• Lead design meetings to plan development and review peer designs.
• Help identify new opportunities and new technologies to improve the customer experience and add features.
• Mentor and develop peer and junior engineers.

Skills

Software development

Tech lead

System programming (C/C++, Rust)

Mentorship

Rust

Security clearance TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead embedded software on custom hardware, including FPGA SoCs, and help architect, develop, and integrate scalable, high-assurance systems in the AWS ecosystem.

You will guide cross-functional hardware and software teams, write Rust-based embedded software, review designs, mentor engineers, and champion code quality and secure software delivery for government-grade projects.