Sr. Embedded Development Engineer
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.
The Role:
Drive the architecture of the complex multi-platform with the focus on power and performance. Review hardware designs, review vendor solutions, select chip-sets. Architect and develop core modules. Design of new features in software applications, tools, and services using object-oriented design, C/C++ , Rust. Diagnose and optimize power and performance bottlenecks in the system tied to the use of system resources like , CPU and memory. Gather business and functional requirements from external and/or internal customers and end-users, and translate requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well between a range of complex . Serve as technical throughout the development lifecycle, end-to-end, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability. Manage resources on multiple technical projects and ensure schedules, milestones, and priorities are compatible with technology and business goals.
Key job responsibilities
Build OS. Improve, track, measure OS performance. Look for better ways to achieve high performance bar for our products.
A day in the life
- Build tools to measure OS performance
- Come up with and drive to completion ideas about performance improvement of OS, middleware and apps
- Look for innovative ways to make customer experience better
- Go deep on the most complex, system and hardware wide issues
About the team
OS Performance team is responsible for power and performance of all the devices Amazon is building. We monitor, track and improve performance of these products across entire SW stack. We are the team dealing with the most complex issues and solutions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.