AWS Hardware Engineering team is driving rapid innovation in server and storage infrastructure for AWS, aiming for industry-leading frugality and operational excellence to support over a million customers. The Firmware Engineer will solve challenging technology problems and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.
Requirements
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 5+ years of embedded firmware development experience
- Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies
- Good understanding of SSD hardware architecture and NAND concepts such as MLC vs TLC, read retry, suspend, RAID.
- High-level understanding of storage technologies and associated block interface protocols.
Responsibilities
- You will be developing firmware for Nitro SSD.
- You will work with NAND vendor and SSD controller vendor on SSD back end firmware to integrate new NAND on different Nitro SSD platforms.
- You will participate in the end to end product development cycle including design, implementation, validation and post launch customer support.
- You will constantly seek for opportunities to improve Nitro SSD firmware's maintainability, scalability, efficiency and testability.
- You will drive improvement on firmware and hardware integration validation methodology and specification.
- You will design and implement firmware features to improve Nitro SSD's fleet observability.
- Working with both internal and external teammates, you will help Nitro SSD to deliver new products that's reliable, high performance and cost effective to customers all over the world through AWS data centers.
Other
- The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter.
- You will be an SSD firmware expert with experience in making architectural tradeoffs to optimize SSD performance for a variety of use cases.
- You will work with engineers across the company as well as external companies and lead firmware development efforts on custom solid-state devices.
- You will collaborate with internal and external development engineers (architecture, hardware, validation, software services).
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
