Draw on your own experience to review, guide, and coach the team, helping them avoid pitfalls and produce products and systems that are world-class and industry-leading
Own your team's software and the data it produces: keep credibility as a technical peer, lead the response when something goes wrong in the field, make fleet behavior measurable, and prove a change is safe across the whole fleet before it ships worldwide
Use operational and product metrics to decide what to fix, what to build, and what to stop doing
Organize the team's work so priorities, commitments, and progress are visible to the team and its partners; forecast dates you can defend, and re-plan when the fleet or the program moves them
Balance technical leadership and business judgment on long-term technology decisions, and represent the team in business planning, technical estimation, and the written documents that set direction
A day in the life
No two days look the same. You might start one-on-one with a couple of engineers, working through how they're doing and what they need to grow. Later you're writing up your team's long-term strategy without dropping the short-term commitments. After lunch you sit down to re-plan the next two weeks, because a hardware change just moved what's possible. Then your team pulls you into a deep dive: something's happening at one site, on a handful of robots out of the thousands there, and nobody yet knows if it's software, hardware, or the first sign of something bigger. They want tactical leadership, and you don't disappoint — you get them the data and a plan, and they spring into action. You close the day finding a way to recognize the people who made it great.
About the team
We are a group of super-smart, collaborative doers who keep the world's largest robot fleet moving and build the robots that will join it. We work shoulder to shoulder with the mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineers who build those robots, and with the operations teams who live with what we ship. We take our responsibility for safety seriously, but challenge ourselves to produce the right product that also gives us the performance we need. We pay attention to the details so others don't have to, and we let the data tell us where to look next.
3+ years of engineering team management experience
3+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience leading the development of embedded, real-time, or safety-critical systems
Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Experience in tools for custom embedded Linux distribution creation such as Yocto, and familiarity in developing and debugging Linux kernel
Experience sustaining a large fleet of deployed devices, including over-the-air firmware update, telemetry, and remote diagnostics at scale
Experience at the boundary between embedded devices and cloud services (device connectivity, fleet management, or IoT platforms)
Familiar developing in a safety standards controlled environment such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MA, North Reading - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
