Sr. SW Development Engineer

About the position

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. As a Sr. Software Development Engineer - Bluetooth, 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 Bluetooth 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.

Responsibilities

• Work with product management and cross functional teams to provide technical solutions for desired user experiences.
• Implement the right Bluetooth metrics to effectively monitor KPIs, error & usage statistics, develop debug tools and integrate with backend solutions to continuously measure and improve on our solutions.
• Implement and provide test recommendations and tools for QA, HW and factory teams.
• Implement high-quality Bluetooth stack, middleware framework and application features.
• Implement application on mobile devices to communicate with Amazon devices over Bluetooth 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.
• Be able to occasionally travel internationally.

Requirements

• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Equity options
• Sign-on payments