Software Development Engineer, Alexa Customers & Technology

Join the team that brought you the Echo Show, a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling, music, weather, and more! Our team also works on other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV, Kindle, and the Echo family of devices.
We are looking for talented and motivated embedded software development engineer to join the team, innovate and build next generation Amazon Echo devices that deliver intuitive and intelligent voice assistant to millions of customers with many exciting features!
Key job responsibilities
• Building software that enables integration of Alexa voice and multi-modal services into compelling applications that run on millions of Echo family devices, and Alexa-enabled Devices.
• Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and setting high standards by taking proactive measures to fix deficiencies and make continous improvement of end product.
• Maintain constant focus on energy and memory efficiency to deliver superior products while reducing customers' costs and environmental footprint
• Adopting, innovating, and driving efficiencies using Gen AI tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and coding to testing and deployment.
• Contribute to the professional growth of team members through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and promoting engineering best practices
A day in the life
In this role, you will work in a collaborative environment with internal and external teams to bring new silicon and peripheral technologies to life. You will design and implement embedded software to form the core of our devices, working through hardware bring-up from early silicon to production. You will craft your software from requirements, designs, code, test, to product deployment. You need to navigate technical ambiguity, making priority calls in order to develop solutions with high quality.
About the team
We are the team that brought Echo Show to millions of homes worldwide. Our engineers work in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment. We would love to have you join us to bring innovative experiences to millions of customers.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- Experience working with RTOS, Android and/or Linux system
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience with Linux on ARM CPUs
- Expertise with Linux kernel and application software development
- Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
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