Amazon Senior Solutions Architect Alexa Connect Kit Smart Home BDSA 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

773337553

The Alexa Smart Home Business Development and Solution Architecture team is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to help third-party developers integrate their products and services with Alexa. In this role, you will be the technical face of Amazon, working closely with top-tier third-party brands and developers to help shape the future of voice-driven experiences powered by Alexa. You will own key technical relationships with senior technical leaders/CxO in those organizations and be a hands-on architect and adviser throughout the lifecycle of their integration efforts.The Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) provides managed services to device makers, helping them create high-quality, connected smart home devices quickly and easily. ACK combines managed hardware modules with SaaS to simplify IoT development for device makers.
Key job responsibilities
* Provide technical consultation to product and engineering teams at strategic partners to facilitate the integration of their devices with Alexa
* Educate partners of all sizes on the Alexa Connect Kit and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure their devices are designed for successful launch.
* Engage with ODMs, contract manufacturers, and factories to bring compelling Alexa Connect Kit enabled devices to customers worldwide.
* Actively identify opportunities to deliver experiences that demonstrate what is possible on Amazon devices and services
* Developing unique, compelling and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new Amazon technologies
* Delivering persuasive, passionate, high impact, high quality presentations to senior decision makers
* Document best practices and create development resources that can be used by other developers.

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- BA/BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in computer architecture and embedded systems.
- 5+ years of embedded development experience in C.
- Knowledge of low-level drivers, interrupt service routines and general troubleshooting/debugging with hardware.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results.
- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects.
- Strong problem-solving skills; the ability to analyze problems and develop actionable and appropriate tactical plans quickly.

- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Experience in firmware development and testing.
- Experience with common bus protocols such as SPI, I2C, and UART.
- Experience with software testing (unit, regression and system testing).
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and embedded Linux.
- Prior experience with system bring-up, manufacturing line testing.
- Prior experience in Python or analyzing sensor data (or interest in learning) is also a plus