Amazon
Sr. Embedded SDE, Hardware Compute Group Job at Amazon in Sunnyvale
Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA, US
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and the Astro personal robot. What will you help us create?
Embedded Software Development Engineer with a strong background in SOC Security to help design our security systems in our next generation devices. In this role you will work with system architects, program managers and hardware engineers to implement security features and assess security software architecture for our next generation devices.
You will be responsible for the development of real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements security controls for the platform.
Develop real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements security controls and features for the platform
- Work closely with system architects, program managers, and hardware engineers to design and integrate security solutions into the next generation of Amazon devices
- Assess security software architecture and provide recommendations to improve the overall security posture of the platform
- Implement cryptographic algorithms, secure boot, and other security primitives in the embedded software stack
- Develop security monitoring and telemetry capabilities to detect and mitigate security threats
- Perform security code reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability analysis to identify and remediate security issues
- Mentor other engineers on the team
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with design, implementation, support, and evaluation of security-focused tools and services
- 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
- Experience in computer architecture, or experience writing low level drivers
- Experience with Arm root of trust boot and boot ROM implementation
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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