Amazon
Join Amazon's Devices team, where innovation meets excitement in designing high-profile consumer electronics such as the Amazon Echo, FireTV, Fire Tablets, Kindle, and Astro. We are on the lookout for a driven individual contributor with a strong hardware or silicon foundation, outstanding communication skills, and a passion for collaborative work to shape the system architecture for our cutting-edge products.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the definition of system architecture for consumer products and novel concepts.
Serve as the primary technical resource for product management and business teams in translating user experience and requirements into clear architecture specifications.
Drive critical design decisions regarding compute architecture, SoC selection, and system component choices.
Create detailed architecture specification documents to guide the engineering team throughout product development.
Monitor market trends, engage with silicon and IP vendors, and develop roadmaps for next-generation compute IP and silicon platforms.
Conduct comprehensive feasibility analyses, profiling, and benchmarking of new features in collaboration with the larger team.
Present architectural trade-offs and strategic recommendations to senior management.
Maintain engagement as a technical lead from concept through prototype, validation, production, and beyond.
Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including Program Management, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, and more, to ensure product compliance with requirements.
Provide insightful design and validation reviews, offering constructive feedback on integration and performance aspects.
About You:
You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with at least 5 years of industry experience.
You possess a solid background in driving architecture and design decisions within silicon, embedded software, or system architecture.
A Master's or PhD degree and 7+ years of experience with embedded architecture design is preferred.
You have in-depth expertise in areas such as computer architecture, SoC architecture, silicon design, and more.
Hands-on skills in software prototyping or hardware development would be an asset.
You are an effective communicator, able to document and clearly present technical designs.
Our system architecture team is pivotal in architecting a wide array of Amazon Lab126 products including Echo, Fire Tablets, FireTV, Kindle eReaders, and more. If you have experience with consumer electronic devices and a passion to contribute at the architecture level for innovative products, we invite you to apply and join our team!
Annual base pay for this position ranges from $143,300 to $247,600, depending on various factors including market location and job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.