Amazon C/C++ Hardware / Software Co-Design SDE 

United States, Texas, Austin 

334895733

At the heart of AWS Machine Learning servers reside our custom Amazon-designed silicon that powers next-generation machine learning capabilities for our customers. We're seeking an experienced C/C++ engineer to join our embedded software team, where you'll develop bare metal firmware that drives neural network model execution across our custom ASIC-based ML Accelerator chips.Working at the intersection of hardware and software, you'll collaborate closely with our architecture and design teams to co-develop the firmware and custom hardware that enables machine learning within our accelerator chips. Our mission is ambitious: to democratize access to industry-leading ML infrastructure and make deep learning capabilities accessible to everyday software developers. From the ground up, you'll help build the foundation that makes this vision possible.This is a fast-paced, challenging position, where you'll work with thought-leaders in multiple technology areas. You'll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve our products' performance, quality, and cost. We're searching for individuals who want to reach beyond what is possible today and change an industry.No prior ML knowledge is required for this role and you will learn about the inner workings of ML and our custom ML accelerators as part of your onboarding.Key job responsibilities
- Software / hardware architecture and co-design
- Bare metal C/C++ software development, testing, debug, and performance improvements
- Test suite and infrastructure development
- Developing software which can be maintained, improved upon, documented, tested, and reused

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ 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 writing firmware or bare metal software using C/C++