Sr. Embedded Software Development Engineer, Vega OS

As a Sr. Embedded SW Engineer, you will collaborate with internal cross-functional teams to deliver software solutions for variety of customer products. You will design, implement, and verify software deliverables and utilize automated testing / delivery frameworks to ensure seamless interfacing to all customers.

You will dive into ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities. You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance in resource- constrained environments, while ensure the solutions are scalable and easy to be ported to new devices or new device categories. You love to share best practices, influence and align teams, and be a technical ambassador for software reuse across the wider Amazon organization.

Key job responsibilities
In this critical engineering role, you'll architect, develop, and optimize low-level Embedded Operating System components that form the foundation of current and future Lab126 products. As a key member of our OS team, you'll collaborate with team members and other cross-functional teams to deliver a robust OS that millions of customers depend on daily. Your contributions will directly impact product reliability, boot time, performance and maintainability.

A day in the life
As a Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Understand and refine the scope of incoming projects
- Design and implement reliable, components and tools to improve the performance and stability for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar
- Experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience and solve business needs
- Work with internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how
- Mentor junior team members in career growth

About the team
This teams primary focus is to provide a robust, secure, performing and scalable base OS that millions of Amazon consumer devices can be depended upon. We are a team that work relentlessly to apply advances in software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers experiences in ways we cant even imagine yet. As a Sr. Embedded Software Development Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting solutions for challenging problems, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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 . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.