Software Development Manager Alexa Personalization jobs at Amazon in United Kingdom, Cambridge

As an SoC Manager, you will lead a team responsible for executing and delivering complex IPs and silicon that ship in the Blink and Ring camera products. Your team will be responsible for front-end digital design and verification of complex IP and SoC integration.A successful candidate must have a track record of designing or verifying complex SoCs and leading teams. Experience in video processing and low power SoC flows would be beneficial.Key job responsibilities- Deliver world-class silicon that solves fundamental challenges in battery powered camera devices
- Work with internal and external IP suppliers to ensure best-in-class IP availability for integration
- Dive into and take ownership of crucial design issues
- Lead design reviews
- Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
- Deliver year-on-year performance, power and features
- Drive analysis to determine performance targets
- Validate hardware/software and debug issues

- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field
- Multiple years of management / lead experience of engineering teams
- Experience with all aspects of digital silicon development including RTL simulation, synthesis, front-end timing constraints, STA, LEC, UPF, low-power design flows, floor planning, etc.
- Has lead, delivered and shipped silicon for high-volume consumer devices

- Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field
- Experience designing and delivering SoCs for consumer devices
- Extensive years of management experience of engineering teams – either IP or SoC integration efforts

Innovators will be delighted with our integrated verification/validation environment that is used to perform architectural modeling to post-silicon validation. The team works backwards from customer requirements to build super-low power, energy efficient designs that include the latest in AI, video processing, low power communications and CMOS fabrication technology.
Key job responsibilities
- Built UVM based testbenches and components- Use and/or build bit accurate C models- Evaluate block and sub-systems for testability/verifiability- Write comprehensive block and system level testplans- Build assertions, traffic generators and scoreboards- Execute testplans and perform rigorous debug

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Experience identifying bugs in architecture, algorithms, functionality, and performance with strong overall debugging skills
- Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from IP blocks to SoCs to full system testing
- UVM Based testbench development

- Master's degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field
- Experience with formal verification techniques including abstraction and end-to-end checking
- Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation
- System Verilog coding and debug

You will learn all about how to design, implement and test highly scalable solutions using AWS cloud platform and its many products, in challenging agile projects, working with best in class professionals.Key job responsibilities
Build services/integration for Financial Applications using Native AWS services, machine learning and generative AI.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 5+ years of full stack development experience

- 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

Please note these are not remote positions.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop advanced solutions in privacy, hypervisors, or IoT devices• Work with state-of-the-art technologies like AWS Nitro System or Ring products• Contribute to projects that define industry standards and push technological boundaries• Design and implement innovative software solutions for complex, large-scale distributed systems• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceive, design, and deliver cutting-edge products and services• Develop and optimize code for performance, scalability, and reliability• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment• Contribute to the development of privacy-oriented services, hypervisors, or IoT device software• Work on low-level system components, including operating systems and device drivers• Implement security measures to protect customer data and ensure regulatory complianceA day in the life
As a Specialised Software Development Engineer, you'll immerse yourself in challenging projects that push the boundaries of technology. Your typical day might include:• Starting with a tea or coffee ahead of looking through code reviews• Attending stand-up meetings with your team to discuss ongoing projects and challenges• Interacting with and learning from experienced engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to solve complex and exciting problems as well as to implement innovative solutions• Learning about cutting-edge technologies from industry experts and participating in design reviews for new system components• Writing and reviewing code for new features ahead of testing to confirm the new features work and can be built into our products• From time to time, celebrating your team’s launches and successes, with pizza meetings or team dinners• Ring Software/Firmware: If you're passionate about embedded systems and IoT, this is your chance to develop and test low-latency streaming solutions for Ring devices. You'll see your code come to life, ensuring smart home security products perform seamlessly in real time• SDO Privacy: Create large-scale, Amazon-wide privacy services and tools, ensuring transparent handling of customer data while meeting global regulatory requirements.• EC2 Accelerated Nitro: Develop hypervisors and integrate hardware accelerators to power EC2 Nitro instance families, supporting advanced workloads like machine learning and high-performance computing.• EC2 KaOS: Maintain and enhance hypervisors and Linux kernels for EC2 servers, focusing on security, availability, and performance using C/C++/Rust..

• Graduated less than 24 months ago or about to complete a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields at time of application• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals• Programming experience in C or Java / Rust• Knowledge in databases• Experience with Operating systems and Kernel Internals, Rust programming

• Previous technical internship(s) if applicable• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases• Experience such as linear programming and nonlinear optimization• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly• Experience with Distributed Systems: Large Scale Database, Multi-tenant, Highly Available Systems, Fault Tolerance, Disaster Recover, or Transactional Systems• Experience with embedded systems, real-time operating systems (RTOS), or IoT development• Proficiency in low-level programming and system optimization

You will obsess over a devices battery life, boot time, system latency or any of a number of performance KPI. You will add significant new features and integrate with new hardware and software services.Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for managing your personal backlog, prioritizing issues and diving deep into technical issues.Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challengeAbout the team
You will join the team that works on Ring devices, including video doorbells, and security cameras. We develop the device firmware which supports popular features such as Live View, colour night mode or motion detection. Our goal is to ensure a secure, reliable product development integrating with the Ring product range, to help Ring on its mission to keep people closer to the moments that matter.Key job responsibilitiesExperience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience in development in the last 3 years
Preferred qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will:- Design algorithms and write software for our consumer products.
- Work closely with camera & sensor experts, product management, computer vision and machine learning experts.- Guide and develop more junior engineers as well as managing your own deliverables.

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Understanding of building systems and toolchains
- Identifying needs for providing and driving software reviews and optimizations
- Experience dealing with middleware/SW stacks and embedded systems
- Experience with API design
- Experience with continuous integration practices (unit-test, linting, code coverage, etc.)

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

* Enjoys working side by side with colleagues and teams on difficult problems.
* Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities.
* Knows what is important when shipping products to customers and has been through the process from start to finish.
* Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge.Key job responsibilities
- Delivering high-quality C/C++ code for Ring Devices at Amazon,
- Specifying, designing, and implementing functionality and behaviors of embedded subsystems,
- Collaborating effectively
- Proactively communicating and demonstrating technical leadership.

- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations