Job Description

DESCRIPTION

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 groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role:

We're looking for outstanding leaders who combine superb people skills with a demonstrated ability to get complex systems up and running quickly and effectively. You will be working with a unique and gifted team of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast-paced mission to conceive and deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced, highly inventive and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail.

Do you have the courage to tackle a mind-bending computer vision challenge? Do you want to lead a team of high performers to deliver robust, production-quality code that solves complex real-world problems? Do you want to change the lives of an entire generation of Amazon customers? If you do, come you should join this team.

Come and invent the future with us.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch and SLA-driven operations
Experience designing and implementing Software APIs, SDKs and Frameworks
Demonstrated leadership responsibility for delivery of a technically demanding product, in a team environment
Experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers and developing their careers

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering
Experience with Android Frameworks or similar.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skills
Superior design and architecture knowledge
Robust project planning/execution skills including estimating, scheduling and executing on committed schedules
Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery as an individual contributor and leader
Entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and product management skills