Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show.
The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical. This is a unique technical role where you will have the opportunity to influence, invent, and design system architecture across multiple product and technology spaces (Alexa devices, IoT devices, etc.). You will join a team whose mission is to ensure that state-of-the-art technologies serving the customer are supported via flexible software architectures, OS and Hardware Platform abstraction, testability, and scalability across multiple device types.
You will be a technical leader who drives cross-platform build and configuration systems for target platforms across RTOS, Linux, Android and other OSes. You also contribute core framework software, such as those that manage IPC/RPC, lifecycle, event handling, security, and other architectural elements that define how modules coexist in an embedded platform.
You will dive into an ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities. You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance in under resource-constrained environments. You love to share best practices, influence and align teams, and be a technical ambassador for software reuse across the wider Amazon organization.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop sophisticated application framework components for cross-platform device ecosystems
- Create flexible software architectures that support seamless integration across RTOS, Linux, Android, and other operating systems
- Develop core framework software managing inter-process communication, lifecycle management, event handling, and security
- Collaborate with product teams to create scalable, high-performance software solutions
- Evangelize best practices and promote software reuse across the Amazon organizationand external customers.
A day in the life
Imagine architecting software frameworks that power the next generation of smart home technology. You'll collaborate across teams, design flexible software architectures, and solve complex technical challenges that enable device innovation. Your work will directly impact how Amazon services are integrated into diverse technological ecosystems.
About the team
We are a dynamic group of engineers passionate about creating transformative device technologies. Our mission is to develop adaptable software platforms that support state-of-the-art customer experiences across multiple device types and operating systems. We value innovation, technical excellence, and collaborative problem-solving.
