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Base Salary
$193k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, build, test, and launch firmware for highly dexterous robotic end effectors.
- Integrate robust, deterministic firmware-layer communication between end effectors and larger robotic systems.
- Review vendor firmware deliverables, provide technical direction, and enforce quality, coding, and integration standards.
- Author functional requirements, design verification plans, and test procedures, and execute designs against those requirements.
- Develop sensor-processing, motor-control, tactile-sensing, and system-communication firmware for electromechanical prototypes and integrated systems.
- Support production firmware bring-up, validation, manufacturing releases, and customer deployments.
- Update ROS models and collaborate with controls, mechanical-design, and other engineering teams on simulation and hardware integration.
- Mentor engineers and lead design or architecture for new and existing embedded systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years of programming experience with at least one programming language.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, plus experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering-team leader.
- 5+ years of professional embedded software development in C or C++, including the full embedded software development lifecycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 5+ years developing embedded C applications using an RTOS such as FreeRTOS, uC-OS, Zephyr, or VxWorks, or embedded Linux environments.
- 3+ years of robotics-system development experience with hands-on design, development, and debugging of products such as consumer electronics, medical devices, automotive systems, avionics, industrial products, or telecommunications products.
- Experience with at least two firmware-layer communication protocols, such as EtherCAT, CAN/CAN-FD, SPI, I2C, RS-485, or Ethernet/UDP.
- Experience debugging firmware and hardware integration issues using JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
- Preferred: master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: 10+ years of full embedded software development lifecycle experience, motor-control firmware, EtherCAT or other real-time industrial communication protocols, embedded Ethernet/UDP design, functional safety, vendor-firmware review, production firmware release, and ROS2 or ros2_control on Linux.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life-plan options.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall Amazon package.
- The position is based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.