As a Software Development Engineer - Systems, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and bring to market innovative developer tools. You will work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
The ideal candidate has current and extensive experience developing and building Android systems and applications. The candidate understands what the limitations of the platform are and can design and implement additional services or help optimize existing ones to meet the product requirements. The ideal candidate:
- Has in-depth expertise working with Android system
- In-depth knowledge and experience with Linux kernel development
- Experience on bootloader and device drivers development and enjoy working on hardware directly
- Enjoys working side by side with partners, colleagues and teams on tough problems
- Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
- Knows what is important when releasing software to developers 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
In a typical day, you work closely with FireTV and FireOS developers, SoC vendors, ODMs, Hardware team, and technical program managers to create new platform features, customize BSP based on hardware designs, address issues in platform areas like HAL, Linux Kernel, drivers, boot loader etc., improve system performance and stability, and deliver customer loving high quality smart TV products on time.
- 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
