SDE-Audio, Silicon and Systems Group

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
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We are looking for an Embedded Software Development Engineer for audio software team - to help design, develop, integrate our next generation devices.
In this role you will work with customers, system architects, program managers and hardware engineers to design, implement, troubleshoot, fix kernel drivers, Audio SW, BSP for our next generation devices.
You will be responsible for the development of real-time embedded firmware and embedded Linux software that implements audio features.
Key job responsibilities
If you have one or more of the below skills, then this job is for you:
- Expertise in ALSA / Pulse Audio
- Exposure to Audio software stack on Android/QNX/proprietary OS including Audio Flinger, Audio HAL
- Exposure to ARM, DSP architectures
- Exposure to Dolby MS12 / DTS/ MPEG-TS
- Exposure to Audio/Video Sync
- Exposure to STB / DTV audio systems
- Working knowledge of Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, and Audio Tools including Audio Precision
In this role, you will:
- Develop audio software that runs on ARM/DSP using Bare metal, Linux and other high level OSes
- Optimization and porting audio and speech processing algorithms
- Integration of vendor hardware and software stacks
- Tune hardware for highest audio performance and lowest noise
About the team
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with embedded systems
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Experience working on Audio software, DSP, ARM, Linux driver development, Android platform development
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