Principal Solutions Architect - Alexa Devices (I\O)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to change the world? Alexa and Echo are literally shaping the future of voice recognition and cloud-based content/services. Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud service and the brain that powers Echo, the award-winning and groundbreaking new Amazon device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. It's hands-free, and always ready. All you have to do is ask. And our goal is to deliver the absolute perfect communication experience to our customers all around the globe.

To achieve this, we blend of a variety of disciplines (such as NLP, data mining, machine learning, big data, semantic web, graph stores, cloud computing) in an effort to understand our customers and the things they're excited about. To complement our complex algorithms and extensive data analyses, we create elevated and inspirational mobile and web features across the entire communication experience. We use artificial intelligence, data mining and usability studies to develop new features, and we test them through hundreds of R & D experiments a year. We want to make it easy for you to search for your favorite products, discover new brands you'd like, play your favorite songs or even replenish your fridge - and much, much more!! We are also incredibly intent on solving some of the most complex computing problems to be found in industry and academia, and we get to test our solutions in the real world every day. And most importantly, we relentlessly ask: "What haven't we though of yet?"

On a day-to-day basis, you will lead an organization of close-knit Engineers that are incredibly technical, agile, data driven, and highly collaborative. You'll find yourself partnering across organizations with world-class technical leaders, Engineers, Research Scientists and Data Analysts, PhDs and industry veterans who have expertise in a wide range of disciplines. You'll help analyze customer behavior, propose innovative ideas and solutions, implement big things, and then measure the results. Engineers on our team love to break things to see how they work, iterate and fail fast, improve on what works, discard what doesn't, and learn from both. And we love to have fun! We gather often for social events, and we regularly get out of the office (rain or shine) to discover new things outside of work.

If you're as passionate as we are about making Alexa and Echo increasingly awesome for our customers all around the world, we'd love to chat with you! We're seeking highly talented, driven and motivated technical leaders with big ideas, who are also obsessed with finding new, intuitive, and engaging ways to interact with our customers. We can't wait to hear from you!

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

***position may be remote for the right candidate

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
· 7+ years professional experience in software development and building successful production software systems
· 5+ years of experience managing software development teams, with hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
· 3+ years of experience managing managers.
· 5+ years of experience in Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· 7+ years of experience building customer and developer facing products and services
· 5+ years of experience in at least one modern programming language (Java, C++, C#)