Amazon.com Services LLC

Consumer Electronics

SystemArchitect,HardwareArchitecture

$157–213k Sunnyvale, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“System Architect, Hardware Architecture at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: System architecture, Hardware architecture, SoC architecture, Silicon design. Define system architecture for consumer products. Serve as lead technical point of contact”

Industry & Context.

Consumer Electronics
Problems you'll solve

Architecture feasibility analysis; Profiling; Benchmarking

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree or above in CS, CE, EE, or related, 5+ years industry experience or PhD, Background or education in SoC/Silicon engineering, Background or education in computer architecture, Background or education in machine learning, Background or education in embedded software

Nice to Have

Master's degree in EE or Communications, Understanding of heterogenous SoC architectures, Experience driving architecture and design decisions for consumer electronics, Hands-on skills in embedded systems, Hands-on skills in system performance evaluation, Hands-on skills in hardware development, Hands-on skills in silicon development

What You'll Do.

Define system architecture for consumer products

Serve as lead technical point of contact

Interpret and clarify product concept requirements

Define system architecture to meet product requirements

Work with business team to clarify requirements

Drive key design decisions

Document decisions in system architecture specification

Interface with silicon and IP vendors

Define roadmaps for next generation compute IP

Define roadmaps for silicon platforms

Dive deep into silicon design

Define specs for next-gen silicon platforms

Work with silicon suppliers to implement specs

Work on concepts with existing reference architecture

Work on emerging product ideas

Stay engaged as system technical lead

Ensure product requirements are met

Work closely with multi-disciplinary product team

Validate architecture assumptions through profiling

Validate architecture assumptions through benchmarking

Lead cross-functional group to drive architecture decisions

Contribute towards developing IP

Gather business and functional product requirements

Translate requirements into technical specifications

Translate requirements into architectures

Perform architecture feasibility analysis

Prototype new features

Present architecture tradeoffs to senior management

Present architecture recommendations to senior management

Develop and document architecture specifications

Serve as technical lead throughout development lifecycle

Provide design reviews for other engineers

Provide validation reviews for other engineers

Provide feedback on architecture issues

Provide feedback on design issues

Provide feedback on integration issues

Provide feedback on performance issues

Provide feedback on scalability issues

Drive technology roadmaps

Meet needs of long-term product roadmap

Work closely with silicon suppliers

Influence silicon supplier roadmaps

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional team; Multi-disciplinary product team; Cross-functional group

Communication Scope

Technical documentation; Present technical designs

Process & Methodology

Scoping, Planning, Conception, Design, Implementation, Testing, Delivery, Maintenance

Full Job Description

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, you will be responsible for defining the system architecture for consumer products such as Echo, FireTV and a range of new concepts not yet announced. You will serve as the lead technical point of contact that the product management and business teams rely on to interpret and clarify the product concept's desired user experience and requirements. You will define system architecture that can meet product requirements and work closely with the business team to understand and clarify requirements and user experience tradeoffs. In the process of architecture definition, you will drive key design decisions such as edge-cloud compute partition, device SoC selection, compute architecture (CPU, DSP, GPU and ML accelerators), and other system component selections (chipsets, memory, storage). You will document the decisions in a system architecture specification document that will provide relevant design guidance for the engineering team. Besides directly defining product architectures, you will track market trends, interface directly with silicon and IP vendors, and define roadmaps for the whole organization on the next generation compute IP and silicon platforms. You will dive deep into silicon design, define specs for the next-gen silicon platforms and work with our silicon suppliers to implement them. You will work on concepts 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

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