Software Dev Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

SDE
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have designed and built groundbreaking media devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

The Role:
Using a combination of open source and proprietary technologies, we build cutting-edge devices for media consumption, whether mobile or in the home. As a strong customer advocate, you will help own media technologies and quality end to end (E2E). You will work with internal and external partners to deliver the best in class devices, and will research new technologies, develop new tools and help define processes to build the media stack of next generation devices.

We are looking for a talented, detail-oriented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer who is passionate about quality and is enthusiastic about new digital products. The person chosen for this position will have the opportunity to contribute their creative ideas and energy to our group. Responsibilities include research, design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of new and existing systems. The creation of software services and tools to drive the software development process towards higher quality. As a Software Engineer, you will take part in the implementation and customization of software, working closely with application teams to delivering the audio/video components within FireOS. The development will be from the concept stage to the launch stage and ensuring the highest level of quality for your deliverable.

You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know. In this role, you will:

· Be responsible for design and development for multimedia initiatives and feature development
· Investigate, prototype and deliver new and innovative system solutions

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field, or 4+ years relevant work experience
· 6+ years of professional experience in software development building production software systems
· 4+ years of experience in Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· 3+ years of experience in C, C++
· 4+ Years of experience with some Multimedia Frameworks and Technologies – Media Codecs, Audio/Video, Streaming protocols and solutions like HLS, MPEG DASH, RTSP, MPEG2TS, DRM (PlayReady or Widevine) etc.
· 2+ Years of experience with Android Multimedia Framework components like MediaCodec, MediaDRM, AudioTrack, AudioFlinger, HAL etc.