Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Echo Frames is Amazon's first prescription-ready smart glasses. In this role, you will be working on the current and future roadmap for Echo Frames. Our team is focused on bringing technology and design into a form that is familiar to millions of glasses wearers, in a way that has never been done by any other company before. If you are excited about pushing the envelope and developing brand new experiences for consumers, we would love to meet you.

We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting-edge advances in technology and to solve real-world problems that will transform our customers experiences in ways we cant even imagine yet.

As an Embedded Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Embedded Firmware Engineer to be part of an exciting team. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day by people you know. Our team is fast paced, highly collaborative, and works most like a start-up environment inside Amazon. To be successful, you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial. You are a true owner - you are passionate about the business and drive to optimize and improve our business processes, remove bottlenecks and friction, and allow the business to move at a fast pace. You collaborate with hardware developers, UX designers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts, iterate, and improve. You create extendable design and easy to maintain solutions with the long-term vision in mind.

In this role, you will:
Be responsible for development of new features for embedded systems
Investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative system solutions
Design, develop, and verify firmware for embedded systems
Participate in design reviews, API development, and documentation
Work with new technologies that are vital to product development
Deliver investigation plans and reports, architectural documents, design specs, software and firmware source code, build scripts
Perform tasks including debug, bring-up, Beta, and production software development
Successfully collaborate with both software and hardware product teams

In our organization, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
5+ years of experience in embedded software design, development and debugging
5+ years of experience in coding in C/C++
5+ years of experience with RTOS or Embedded Linux

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience in one or more of these areas: cameras, sensors, touch, Wifi/Bluetooth stack, algorithm development Experience with Linux development environments
Board level bringup and hardware validation experience
Strong debugging/trouble-shooting skills of embedded systems
Expertise with Linux kernel and application software development
Experience with real time debugging tools (software and hardware)
Knowledge in serial interface protocols like I2C, SPI and MIPI
Experience with at least one scripting language
Familiar with one of following: audio DSP core architecture, TenSilica, CEVA, ARM, or MIPS
Bluetooth expertise
Experience developing on audio DSPs
System-level integration experience including open source packages
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit US Disability Accommodations.