System Architect, 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.

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 for product management and business teams, interpreting and clarifying product concepts, desired user experiences, and requirements. You will define system architecture to meet product requirements and work closely with the business team to understand and clarify requirements and user experience tradeoffs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining system architecture and making key design decisions
• Documenting decisions in system architecture specification documents
• Tracking market trends and interfacing with silicon and IP vendors
• Defining roadmaps for next-generation compute IP and silicon platforms
• Diving deep into silicon design and defining specs for next-gen silicon platforms
• Staying engaged as the system technical lead throughout the product development lifecycle
• Working closely with multi-disciplinary product teams
• Validating architecture assumptions through profiling and benchmarking
• Contributing to IP development and patent filing

You should have a strong understanding of heterogeneous SoC architectures, experience in driving architecture and design decisions for consumer electronics devices, and expertise in at least two areas such as computer architecture, SoC architecture, silicon design, graphics and multimedia, embedded Linux, video encoders/decoders, applied machine learning, ML accelerators, audio, wireless, sensors, power management, or system performance benchmarking.

The role requires strong communication skills, the ability to clearly document and present technical designs, and hands-on skills in either software development for prototyping or hardware development.