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Job summary
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, Lab126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126 providing the core OS, platform, features and components.
In the Device OS group, we are inventing the future for consumer electronics and are looking for a software engineer to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. The team develops scalable cloud solutions that enable our partners to quickly build and launch devices quickly and in a cost-effective way. If you love to be hands on designing and implementing quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world class, highly accomplished team, we would love to talk with you.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will lead the technical aspects of core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design implement and bring to market innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
This Software Development Engineer role will be responsible to create innovative Embedded solutions enabling new/unique experiences for our customers with a wide range of Amazon Devices. This hands-on position also requires broad engineering competence in Embedded SW, Android Framework and application development, good knowledge on HAL/HIDL is preferred along with a strong code craftsmanship principles and a good understanding of the scalable software system design. In addition, provide technical consultation across different organization, find innovative ways to solve customer needs and take up interesting technical problems that are unique to devices. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and Implement solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility.
- You will be involved in feature up-leveling to new Device or OS versions.
- You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff/stakeholders to conceive and design innovative customer experiences.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
Development Hands-on experience in C/C++ would be a plus.
Understanding of embedded development would be a plus.
Experience working on highly scalable cloud services for high-volume consumer products Understanding of AWS Lambda, EC2 and Dynamo DB will be a plus.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on experience in Android Framework and Applications.
- Good knowledge on software engineering best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations.
- Should be able to communicate with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy.