Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Since then, we have worked to produce hardware and software for devices like Fire tablets, Kindle Voyage, Amazon Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver the new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness.

• Contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of custom embedded software applications and services across multiple platforms
• Design and build cutting edge software with a small, but experienced team of engineers
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on innovative user experiences for mobile, desktop, and other platforms

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years’ experience in embedded software, vision or hardware control systems
• Coding skills in C or C++ and Java, on a Unix/Linux platform
• Experience starting with product requirements and design & build the software to bring the product to life
• Design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object oriented design patterns
• Knowledge of wireless technologies, network protocols as well as security

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience developing distributed, multi-process, and multi-threaded client/server architectures
• Low-level (Kernel) software experience
• Experience investigating, designing, prototyping, and delivering new and innovative system solutions
• Experience working in agile environment
• Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Can mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
• Comfortable taking initiative and working across teams
• Excellence in technical communication with peers, partners, and non-technical co-workers