Amazon.com Services LLC

Consumer Electronics

SystemArchitect,HardwareArchitecture

$130–213k 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; Prototyping

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years industry experience, MS in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, MS in related fields, Background in SoC/Silicon engineering, Background in computer architecture, Background in machine learning, Background in embedded software

Nice to Have

Understanding of heterogenous SoC architectures, Experience driving architecture decisions, Experience driving design decisions, Expertise in computer architecture, Expertise in SoC architecture, Expertise in silicon design, Expertise in graphics and multimedia, Expertise in embedded Linux, Expertise in video encoders/decoders, Expertise in applied machine learning, Expertise in ML accelerators, Expertise in audio, Expertise in wireless, Expertise in sensors, Expertise in power management, Expertise in system performance benchmarking, Software development for prototyping, Hardware development for prototyping, Clear documentation of technical designs, Clear presentation of technical designs

What You'll Do.

Define system architecture for consumer products

Serve as lead technical point of contact

Interpret product concept requirements

Clarify product concept requirements

Define system architecture meeting product requirements

Understand and clarify requirements

Understand and clarify user experience tradeoffs

Drive key design decisions

Select compute architecture

Select system components

Document decisions in system architecture specification

Provide design guidance to engineering team

Interface with silicon vendors

Interface with IP vendors

Define roadmaps for 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

Work on concepts with 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 product requirements

Gather functional product requirements

Translate requirements into technical specifications

Translate requirements into architectures

Perform architecture feasibility analysis

Present architecture tradeoffs

Present architecture recommendations

Develop and document architecture specifications

Serve as technical lead throughout development lifecycle

Provide design reviews for engineers

Provide validation reviews for engineers

Drive technology roadmaps

Meet needs of long-term product roadmap

Work closely with silicon suppliers

Work closely with component suppliers

Influence supplier roadmaps

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

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

Communication Scope

Document technical designs; 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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