Sr Software Development Engineer Amazon Devices Connectivity and OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon Inc. originally creating the bestselling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking 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.

The Role:
As a Software Development Engineer Connectivity you will engage with experienced crossdisciplinary staffs to conceive and design innovative consumer products. Vertically your ownership can span across application device framework connectivity stack drivers and low level wireless controller coexistence and scheduler algorithms. Horizontally you will be given to opportunity to work and own connectivity solutions across all Amazon digital devices spanning from Kindle Fire TV Echo IoT Smart Home solutions and more as well as application on mobile devices
You will work closely with the product management hardware operations application platform cloud and quality assurance teams. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. The Bluetooth connectivity team is responsible for the connectivity related user experience and use cases. This includes delivery and maintenance of an evolving feature rich highperformance lowpower stable platform. In this role your responsibilities will include:

Work with product management and cross functional teams to provide technical solutions for desired user experiences.

Implement highquality Connectivity stacks across WiFi Bluetooth Zigbee Thread UWB framework and application features.

Implement the right metrics debug tools and integrate with backend solutions to continuously measure and improve on our solutions.

Implement power management features.

Implement and provide testing facilities and tools for QA HW and factory teams.

Implement application on mobile devices to communicate with Amazon devices over Bluetooth link.


Work with teams to improve and tailor existing drivers stack and applications to our needs. Improve memory footprint optimize drive stack and application code.

Work with the hardware team to ensure correct exercising of hardware and RF architecture.

Support compliance and certification activities.

Be able to occasionally travel internationally.


6 years of noninternship professional software development experience
6 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
6 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

6 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.