As a Software Development Manager for Embedded Devices, you will lead a team that owns the low level embedded software development, reference platform bring-up, and delivering the reference software kits and middleware software solutions to partners. This role requires engaging with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design innovative consumer products. You along with your team will take the lead in designing, prototyping, and building reference platforms to solve hard problems in Linux, RTOS and the Amazon ecosystem, delivering new platforms to showcase the combination of technologies and our portability software. In this role, you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design and architecture of Amazon devices used every day by people you know. You will implement process improvements for both your own and surrounding teams, advise senior management, define and drive the necessary activities needed for data driven chipset selection, drive and facilitate innovation within the team and manage team budget, headcount projections, recruiting and continuous performance evaluations. As part of your work, you will work closely with Amazon device software teams, product management teams, and Amazon service teams to drive development from the concept stage to the launch stage.