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Job summary
Amazon is building autonomous delivery robots to bring packages over the last mile to customers. The Scout bots are safe, efficient, sustainable, and fun. These small, electric, bots will be a paradigm shift for how customers receive orders. The Scout team is passionate about innovation using advanced technologies. We love complex challenges and are obsessed with delighting customers. We’re looking for people who love hard, ambiguous, large-scale problems. We move fast and hold a high bar for operational excellence. To learn more about Amazon Scout, check out our Amazon Day One Blog post here: https://amazon.com/scout

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will own key foundational software components that interact directly with robot hardware. The designs you make and the code you write will be critical to our success. You will use your knowledge of software, electronics, and communications protocols to create elegant solutions to complex problems. You care about reliability and performance and you will use your experience and insights to get the most from the hardware.

As a Scout Software Developer, you collaborate with a talented and diverse team, including other embedded systems developers, mechanical and electrical engineers, machine learning and computer vision experts, applied scientists, and field operations teams. You obsess over the productivity of your developer customers. You invent and simplify on behalf of the engineering teams to keep our code high quality and our robots highly-reliable. You instrument every part of your system, driving continuous improvement on key metrics. You understand engineering challenges across a wide range of disciplines.

This role has significant intellectual, technical, and innovation challenges, with the opportunity for global logistical and cultural impact.

At Scout, as in all of Amazon, it’s still Day One.


Key job responsibilities
You will;

• 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience working with devices or robotics
• Fluent in C and C++

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with device deployment at scale
• Experience implementing common communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN) in RTOS and/or bare metal embedded systems
• Experience writing device drivers in RTOS and/or bare metal embedded systems
• Experience designing code for Embedded Microcontrollers (ARM, PIC, etc) in a production environment.
• Strong debugging/trouble-shooting skills of embedded systems
• Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
• Experience with ARM-based SOC architecture
• Comfortable taking initiative and working across teams
• Excellence in technical communication with peers, partners, and non-technical co-workers
• Ability to work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of co-workers

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.