Software Dev Engineer II

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers 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 groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

The Role:

As a Software Development Engineer in the Device OS, you will take part in the implementation and delivery of Linux graphics features for devices. You will work closely with the hardware and QA teams, as well as partners to take the product from concept to customer release while ensuring the highest level of quality for your deliverables. Knowhow around dma buf sub system in Linux Kernel is required. Understanding of kernel memory sub system related to Graphics/Media/Camera is a bonus. Knowledge about System compositors like Android hardware composer/Surface Flinger is required. Need good understanding of GLES and GLSL API. Experience using Vulkan is a bonus.

In this role, you will:
Create innovative new products that are used by millions of users
Perform new SoCs platform bring up and develop/enable graphics features
Develop applications, extend features, and create new benchmarks for performance evaluation
Drive vendor requirements on future CPU and Graphics technology
Perform and drive technical deep dives with key IP and processor vendors
Do hands-on development of features across application and kernel on graphics domain
Be highly effective and thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities




- 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