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, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for software teams manufacturing and testing Amazon's next generation of devices.
Key job responsibilities
- As a Software Development Engineer, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape the development and future of the AME Manufacturing team.
- In this role you will lead the teams to innovate and solve problems of high ambiguity and high impact. You will drive design choices, trade-offs, priorities and timelines.
- You will demonstrate exceptional management skills and technical expertise, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance under resource constrained environments.
- You will guide and inspire other engineers, participate in defining our engineering culture, and help to build a world class and highly self-motivated team.
- You will draw from your deep and broad technical and management expertise to mentor senior engineers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues, design tradeoffs, and feature and schedule prioritization
A day in the life
As a Automation Engineer at Amazon you'll be expected to:
- Work with robotics control engineers to integrate the cloud architecture with station level software
- Work with cross functional teams to understand the requirements for data pipelines
- Ensure proper integration with machine learning applications that are planned for the factory.
- Develop prototypes for new technologies in the factory
- Proactively communicate technical information and status to broad, cross-functional teams
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
- Understand system inter-dependencies and limitations
About the team
Joining the AME Manufacturing Test team gives you the opportunity to:
- Innovate the next generation manufacturing solutions for Amazon Devices, inclusing integration of the latest robotics and machine learning developments
- Lead the architecture, design, development and launch of some of the core product features for internal customers
- Create reliable, scalable, and high performance digital security solutions utilizing AWS services
- Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize manufacturing
- The ideal candidate will have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts. You'll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 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
