Do you want to shape the future of consumer electronics devices?
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and develops high-profile consumer electronic devices, creating the best-selling Kindle, Fire, Echo, and Astro family of products. What will you help us create?
We are growing fast and are looking for platform leaders who can deliver firmware/software keeping in mind device safety, reliability and customer experience. This requires both being able to implement highly optimized data structures, but also low level tuning to the device hardware.
If you have impressive experience in C/C++/Java, and a passion for systems software engineering and embedded firmware development, then this is a unique opportunity to join us at day one of building device software that will be the foundation of safety for new devices in the years to come.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
• Design and implement battery, thermal and device safety algorithms in embedded FW
• Design and implement cloud-based field prognostics infrastructure to enable monitoring and predictive data analytics of device metrics
• Be very hands-on; work with multiple product engineering teams to manage the day-to-day development activities in new production introduction (NPI) by leading architecture decisions, participating in design, code reviews, and implementation.
• Perform failure analysis with device telemetry to understand root causes of device failures
• Institutionalize lessons learned and drive continual process improvement in FW development and regression flow
A day in the life
As a Firmware Integrity Engineer you lead the charge in identifying what can go wrong and best ways to accommodate it in design. Your innovation, analysis, and understanding will yield firmware and hardware designed for reliability. Firmware must balance many opposing factors such as: thermal controls, device performance, customer expectations over a broad range of environmental and manufacturing conditions. When a device is dropped in the ocean, how will it know? What will it do? What should it do?
When devices fail, you will provide detailed diagnostics of what went wrong through FA and data analysis. You will then work to apply these lessons learned to prevent the failure in the future on current and future devices.
