Amazon
Senior System Architect, Hardware Architecture
Amazon, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94086
Amazon Devices System Architect Position
The Amazon Devices team is looking for a motivated individual contributor with a solid hardware or silicon background, great communication skills, and the passion to collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive system architecture across Amazon devices. Key job responsibilities include: Defining the system architecture for consumer products such as Echo, FireTV, and a range of new concepts not yet announced. Serving as the lead technical point of contact for product management and business teams to interpret and clarify product concept's desired user experience and requirements. Defining system architecture that can meet product requirements and working closely with the business team to understand and clarify requirements and user experience tradeoffs. Driving key design decisions such as edge-cloud compute partition, device SoC selection, compute architecture (CPU, DSP, GPU and ML accelerators), and other system component selections. Documenting decisions in a system architecture specification document that provides relevant design guidance for the engineering team. Tracking market trends, interfacing directly with silicon and IP vendors, and defining roadmaps for the whole organization on the next generation compute IP and silicon platforms. Diving deep into silicon design, defining specs for the next-gen silicon platforms and working with silicon suppliers to implement them. Staying engaged as the system technical lead to ensure the product requirements are being met throughout the development process. Working closely with multi-disciplinary product teams including Program Management, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, ML Science, Product Design, Industrial Design, Reliability, and Operations. A day in the life includes: Gathering business and functional product requirements from external/internal customers and translating these requirements into technical specifications and architectures. Performing architecture feasibility analysis, including profiling, benchmarking, and prototyping new features on available silicon platforms. Presenting architecture tradeoffs and recommendations to senior management. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and document architecture specifications. Serving as a technical lead throughout the full development lifecycle. Providing design and validation reviews for other engineers. Driving technology roadmaps in areas of expertise to foster innovation. Working closely with silicon and component suppliers and influencing their roadmaps to meet Amazon Lab126 needs. The system architecture team is responsible for architecting Amazon Lab126 products including Echo, Fire Tablets, FireTV, Kindle eReaders, Hearables, Wearables and IoT. The team also owns the chipset and IP technology roadmap and drives strategies that enable reuse and scale across Amazon devices. The team is comprised of architects with varied hardware and software backgrounds. We are always on the lookout for capable architects who can raise the bar and add technical expertise and depth to drive architectures for next-gen devices and emerging concepts.
The Amazon Devices team is looking for a motivated individual contributor with a solid hardware or silicon background, great communication skills, and the passion to collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive system architecture across Amazon devices. Key job responsibilities include: Defining the system architecture for consumer products such as Echo, FireTV, and a range of new concepts not yet announced. Serving as the lead technical point of contact for product management and business teams to interpret and clarify product concept's desired user experience and requirements. Defining system architecture that can meet product requirements and working closely with the business team to understand and clarify requirements and user experience tradeoffs. Driving key design decisions such as edge-cloud compute partition, device SoC selection, compute architecture (CPU, DSP, GPU and ML accelerators), and other system component selections. Documenting decisions in a system architecture specification document that provides relevant design guidance for the engineering team. Tracking market trends, interfacing directly with silicon and IP vendors, and defining roadmaps for the whole organization on the next generation compute IP and silicon platforms. Diving deep into silicon design, defining specs for the next-gen silicon platforms and working with silicon suppliers to implement them. Staying engaged as the system technical lead to ensure the product requirements are being met throughout the development process. Working closely with multi-disciplinary product teams including Program Management, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, ML Science, Product Design, Industrial Design, Reliability, and Operations. A day in the life includes: Gathering business and functional product requirements from external/internal customers and translating these requirements into technical specifications and architectures. Performing architecture feasibility analysis, including profiling, benchmarking, and prototyping new features on available silicon platforms. Presenting architecture tradeoffs and recommendations to senior management. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and document architecture specifications. Serving as a technical lead throughout the full development lifecycle. Providing design and validation reviews for other engineers. Driving technology roadmaps in areas of expertise to foster innovation. Working closely with silicon and component suppliers and influencing their roadmaps to meet Amazon Lab126 needs. The system architecture team is responsible for architecting Amazon Lab126 products including Echo, Fire Tablets, FireTV, Kindle eReaders, Hearables, Wearables and IoT. The team also owns the chipset and IP technology roadmap and drives strategies that enable reuse and scale across Amazon devices. The team is comprised of architects with varied hardware and software backgrounds. We are always on the lookout for capable architects who can raise the bar and add technical expertise and depth to drive architectures for next-gen devices and emerging concepts.