Embedded Software Engineer, Amazon Devices - Connectivity SW
DESCRIPTION
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.
Location: While the majority of our Zigbee/Thread Engineering roles are based in Austin, TX, by applying to this position your application will be considered for the following locations in the United States: Irvine, CA, Austin, TX or Sunnyvale, CA.
The Role:
As a Software Development Engineer - Zigbee/Thread, you will engage with experienced cross-disciplinary staffs to conceive and design innovative consumer products. Vertically your ownership can span across application, device framework, connectivity stack, drivers and low level wireless controller coexistence and scheduler algorithms. Horizontally you will be given to opportunity to work and own connectivity solutions across all Amazon digital devices spanning from Kindle, Fire TV, Echo, IoT Smart Home solutions and more as well as application on mobile devices
You will work closely with the product management, hardware, operations, application, platform, cloud and quality assurance teams. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. The Zigbee connectivity team is responsible for the connectivity related user experience and use cases. This includes delivery and maintenance of an evolving feature rich, high-performance, low-power, stable platform. In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Work with product management and cross functional teams to provide technical solutions for desired user experiences.
Implement high-quality Zigbee stack, framework and application features.
Implement new feature for Open Thread Stack
Implement the right metrics, debug tools and integrate with backend solutions to continuously measure and improve on our solutions.
Implement power management features.
Implement and provide testing facilities and tools for QA, HW and factory teams.
Implement application on mobile devices to communicate with Amazon devices over Zigbee link.
Work with teams to improve and tailor existing drivers, stack and applications to our needs. Improve memory footprint, optimize drive, stack and application code.
Work with the hardware team to ensure correct exercising of hardware and RF architecture.
Support compliance and certification activities.
Be able to occasionally travel internationally.
A day in the life
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.
About the team
Amazon products are revolutionary consumer devices that have become the #1 best-selling Amazon products. From products like Echo. Fire TV, Echo Show, Echo Dot, Smart home solutions, and much more, our team creates products to keep you connected to the things you love and need. Collaboration, thinking outside the box, innovation, and long term thinking are at the core of how we operate. On this team, you will be able to learn and teach others how to think outside the box, stretching what is possible within our devices/technology by writing solid code and designing solutions that are extensible, maintainable and scalable.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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