Embedded Firmware Engineer, ENA Team

Description

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Working for Annapurna Labs is thrilling, fast-paced, and a constant learning experience. As an ENA Firmware SW development engineer, you will be responsible for developing features for Annapurna Labs next-generation hardware, to enable high network bandwidth and packets-per-seconds (PPS) performance, with consistently low latency. You will work to bring up a broad selection of instance types, optimized for various use cases, to suit each of our customer’s needs, such as varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capabilities. As an ENA Firmware SW development engineer, you will play a key role in shaping architecture definitions and SW system designs, and help to resolve complex customer issues. You will continuously evolve technically, while working to monitor AWS cloud health, maintain high quality standards, develop highly-optimized code, and provide exceptional customer satisfaction.

Annapurna Labs, as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), develops innovative hardware and software for AWS cloud customers. Annapurna Labs is like a big start-up in AWS. We develop cutting-edge technologies, work with amazingly talented engineers, and truly shape the future. Thanks to our teams’ breadth of professional engineers, we have been able to improve AWS cloud networking infrastructure, with products such as Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), and Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD). Our products are at the heart of the cloud, playing a key role, and used by millions and millions of customers!

Key job responsibilities

About

To learn more about Annapurna Labs and get a feel of our products, you are welcome to watch the following videos:

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx36tyJ47ps )

AWS re:Invent 2022 - Powering Amazon EC2: Deep dive on the AWS Nitro System (Ravi Murty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaqfeyvvSE

A day in the life

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Basic Qualifications

• B.Sc. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• 3+ years of professional experience in SW development
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in C development, with a mindset for developing optimized code
  
  

• Multi-core / multi-threaded coding experience
• Hands-on experience developing Firmware and/or user space drivers for embedded systems
• Hands-on experience with low-level SW development and HW devices
• Experience with real-time performance profiling and optimization
• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience with networking protocols