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Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Amazonabout 2 months ago
Cambridge
Senior Level

About the role

Who you are

  • While experience with embedded systems is valuable, we're looking for engineers passionate about building IoT products who are eager to work close to the hardware
  • The ideal candidate is responsive, flexible, and thrives in an open collaborative peer environment
  • Enjoys working side-by-side with partners, colleagues, and teams on difficult problems
  • Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
  • Knows what is important when shipping products to customers and has been through the process from start to finish
  • Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
  • Experience in professional, non-internship software development
  • Experience in development in the last 3 years
  • Experience in embedded development in C/C++
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will be a core member of a software team developing Ring's next generation of camera-centric devices
  • You'll obsess over device performance—whether that's battery life, boot time, system latency, or other critical KPIs
  • You'll add significant new features and integrate with new hardware and software services
  • You will be responsible for managing your personal backlog, prioritising issues and diving deep into technical issues
  • The team are responsible for developing and delivering firmware for Ring's camera-centric devices - new products, supporting existing devices, and adding new features. We're a large team with sites in Europe and Asia as well as stakeholders in the US

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