System Architect Power Optimization, Hardware Architecture

The Amazon Devices team designs high-profile consumer electronics including the best-selling Amazon Echo FireTV Fire Tablets Kindle and Astro family of products. We are looking for a motivated individual contributor with a solid hardware or silicon background great communication skills and the passion to collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive system architecture across Amazon devices.



Key job responsibilities
As a System Architect focused on Power Optimization you will be responsible for defining and driving power optimization strategies for silicon across consumer products such as Echo FireTV and a range of new concepts not yet announced. You will serve as a key technical point of contact working closely with senior leaders in the organization to interpret power requirements define power budgets and clarify power-performance tradeoffs that align with the product concepts desired user experience. You will define power-optimized system architectures and work closely with business and product teams to understand requirements and communicate the impact of power-related design the process of architecture definition you will drive key power-related design decisions such as SoC power mode definitions compute architecture power partitioning (CPU DSP GPU and ML accelerators) voltage and frequency scaling strategies and system component power characterization. You will document these decisions in system architecture specification documents that provide relevant power design guidance for the engineering team.

Besides directly defining power-optimized product architectures you will track market trends in power-efficient silicon design interface directly with silicon and IP vendors and contribute to roadmaps for the organization on next-generation power-efficient compute IP and silicon platforms. You will dive deep into silicon design with a focus on power modeling define power specifications for next-gen 1P silicon platforms and work with silicon suppliers to implement them. You will work on products that may have an existing reference architecture as well as emerging product ideas that do not have any precedence. As the product is developed from the initial concept prototype development validation to production you will stay engaged as the power architecture lead to ensure power targets and product requirements are being met. Throughout this process you will work closely with multi-disciplinary product teams including Program Management Electrical Engineering Software Engineering ML Science Product Design Industrial Design Reliability and Operations.

You are a hands-on engineer who is close to the details and validates your power architecture assumptions through power modeling profiling and benchmarking. You bring deep expertise in power management and power modeling with sufficient breadth across system domains to collaborate effectively with cross-functional groups and drive power-related architecture decisions. Over time you will be expected to grow your breadth across additional system architecture domains such as computer architecture SoC architecture silicon design graphics and multimedia embedded Linux video encoders/decoders applied machine learning ML accelerators audio wireless sensors system performance benchmarking to evolve into a broader generalized System Architect role. As part of technology development you contribute towards developing IP and filing patents.

A day in the life
Gather business and functional product requirements from external/internal customers and translate these requirements into technical specifications and architectures that are robust scalable and supportable

Perform architecture feasibility analysis including profiling benchmarking and prototyping new features (with the larger team) on existing and upcoming silicon platforms with a focus on power optimization.

Present architecture tradeoffs and recommendations to senior management (VP level)

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and document architecture specifications that serve as a reference for development teams

Serve as a technical lead throughout the full development lifecycle end-to-end from scoping planning conception design implementation and testing to delivery and maintenance

Provide design and validation reviews for other engineers including feedback on architecture and design issues as well as integration performance and scalability.

Drive technology roadmaps in areas of expertise to foster innovation and meet the needs of the long-term product roadmap.

Work closely with silicon and component suppliers and influence their roadmaps to meet Amazon Lab126 needs.

About the team
The system architecture team is responsible for architecting Amazon Lab126 products including Echo Fire Tablets FireTV Kindle eReaders Hearables Wearables and IoT. The team also owns the chipset and IP technology roadmap and drives strategies that enable reuse and scale across Amazon devices. The team is comprised of architects with varied hardware and software backgrounds. We are always on the lookout for capable architects who can raise the bar and add technical expertise and depth to drive architectures for next-gen devices and emerging concepts.

Come be a part of the system architecture team in Lab126 Hardware Architecture and technology! Employees who have experience with consumer electronics devices and have been EEs embedded software engineers systems engineers etc. and would like to contribute at the architecture level to the exciting Lab126 roadmap are encouraged to apply.

- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Experience identifying bugs in architecture algorithms functionality and performance with strong overall debugging skills
- Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing

- Masters degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field
- Experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking
- Experience with ARM and various DSP ISAs
- Experience with current and upcoming RF standards in cellular (4G/5G NR) WiMAX 802.11ad microwave backhaul or related broadband wireless standards
- Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 157300.00 - 212800.00 USD annually