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 Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Fire phone and Amazon Echo. What will you help us to create next
Key job responsibilities
The Role:
As a Software Development Engineer - Systems you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive design and bring to market innovative developer tools. You will work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition execution and test. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
The ideal candidate has current and extensive experience developing and building Android systems and applications. The candidate understands what the limitations of the platform are and can design and implement additional services or help optimize existing ones to meet the product requirements. The ideal candidate:
- Has in-depth expertise working with Android system
- In-depth knowledge and experience with Linux kernel development
- Experience on bootloader and device drivers development and enjoy working on hardware directly
- Enjoys working side by side with partners colleagues and teams on tough problems
- Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple changing priorities
- Knows what is important when releasing software to developers and has been through the process from start to finish
- Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge
A day in the life
In a typical day you work closely with FireTV and FireOS developers SoC vendors ODMs Hardware team and technical program managers to create new platform features customize BSP based on hardware designs address issues in platform areas like HAL Linux Kernel drivers boot loader etc. improve system performance and stability and deliver customer loving high quality smart TV products on time.
About the team
Smart TV Platform team is responsible for the delivery and maintenance of high-performance and highly stable platform for Smart TV products.
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3 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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