You will be leading some of the world’s brightest minds and building them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. We want people who will help share and shape our mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Amazon’s evolution and success is driven by the spirit of invention that’s part of our DNA. We do this daily by solving complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity.
If you’re passionate about safety and performance and have an interest in robotics systems, then we’d like to talk to you about becoming part of an organization with global impact on millions of customers.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate is passionate about guiding and developing their team to deliver the right solutions for our customers, ensuring that our products will meet Amazon-scale while simultaneously raising the bar for associate's safety. They will:
- Bring structure to ambiguous business problems; using science, logic and practical experience to decompose them into straightforward, scalable and performant solutions
- Hire and develop world class embedded software engineers into effective teams, solving challenges that have never been solved before
- Leverage their previous experience to review, guide and coach the team to avoid pitfalls and produce products and systems that are world class and industry leading
- Balance technical leadership and business judgement to make sure that the right long term decisions about technology and methodologies are being made
- Represent the team in business planning activities and technical estimation exercises
- Balance the complex demands of safety critical development against Amazon’s fast pace project needs
- Produce high quality written documents to influence project and team direction
A day in the life
You could start off the day meeting one on one with a couple of members of your team, identifying how they are doing, and what they need to be successful and grow. From there, you might move onto writing a document explaining your team’s long term strategy to invest in some future idea without dropping your short term commitments. After lunch, things could take a turn for a different angle as you go to a status meeting, ensuring that your stakeholders know where your team stands. On your way back to your desk, your team calls you into a technical deep dive, trying to understand the impact of a situation that occurred at a test site earlier in the day. They are looking for your tactical leadership, and you don’t disappoint - you come up with a plan and your team springs into action. Finally, you close out the day finding a way to recognize the incredible performers of your team.
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
The Safety Firmware team is a comprised of super-smart, collaborative doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and to solve real-world challenges. We take our responsibility for safety seriously but challenge ourselves to produce the right product that also gives us the performance we need. We pay attention to the details so others don't have to and strive to make systems that are natural and intuitive to use so that safety doesn't need a second thought.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- 5+ years of development experience within an embedded environment or with some aspect of robotic systems which must include direct, hands-on experience designing, developing, and debugging one of consumer electronics, medical devices, automotive systems, avionics, industrial, or telecommunications products
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Familiar developing in a safety standards controlled environment such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
- Experience in tools for custom embedded Linux distribution creation such as Buildroot or Yocto, and familiarity in developing and debugging Linux kernel
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