Firmware Engineering Team Lead

Amazon — a place where builders can build. We hire the world’s brightest minds and offer 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.

We are seeking an exceptional software professional to work as a Team Lead within our firmware team. 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. At Amazon Robotics, we invent things that have never been done before. The firmware team is a comprised of super-smart doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and to solve real-world challenges. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to help to deliver and maintain the most successful robotic fleet in the world. If you love to delight customers and want to make a difference every day, then join us in making history!

In the role, you will lead a team and participate in the design of complex robotic products. You will be responsible for the product through its entire life-cycle, from participating in hardware selection to establishing a firmware architecture. You will lead the product team through the implementation and development phases and follow through with testing, manufacturing, and ultimately deployment and maintenance. You will lead a growing and effective team and work closely with several other teams and groups at large to deliver excellence in the form of a safe and functional product experience. To be successful, you need to be highly motivated, understand how to solve problems, and dive deep while delivering to the highest standards.


Key job responsibilities
• Develop the long-term strategy for your team and translate that into a road map/action plan
• Carefully balance functional and safety needs to deliver on both
• Drive the overall technical vision and architecture which enables us to grow and scale quickly
• Understand how all elements of the system work together and develop engineering and testing approaches that fit the overall strategy
• Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments
• Manage engineering resources and drive the day-to-day activities of the engineering team
• Manage the resources of your team including, hiring, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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