Amazon
Sr. Embedded Firmware Engineer, Annapurna Labs ML Acceleration Systems Software
$168K–$262K
Austin, TX +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 19, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the stated software development, programming, design or architecture, and full software development life cycle criteria; also requires mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develops and integrates firmware and systems software to initialize, monitor, debug, test, and manage machine-learning accelerator servers at AWS scale.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain firmware for custom accelerators and server components, including software integrated with EC2.
- Coordinate with hardware, test, and manufacturing teams on software qualification and deployment.
- Write documented, tested, reusable software for system initialization, monitoring, and management.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead; bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and parallel computing.
- Knowledge of system performance and memory management.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Python, Lua, I2C, SPI, PCie, EC2
AI focus
Builds systems firmware for the physical servers and custom accelerators that execute machine-learning workloads; does not develop machine-learning algorithms.
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