Sensor Engineer, Edge Tech

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 produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.
What will you help us create?


Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
• Design sensors and sensing features into world-class devices and cutting-edge prototypes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders across the company.
• Dive into and take ownership to root-cause and resolve critical design and manufacturing issues.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Address all aspects of technology readiness, including manufacturability.
• Work with contract manufacturers to ensure designs can be built at scale and within budget.
• Contribute to maintaining and updating team processes and good practices.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews and mentoring.
• Establish robust processes and methodologies to deliver technology to products.
• Contribute to product requirements and specifications definition.
• Participate in technology and product roadmap creation.
• Up to 20% travel.


A day in the life
As a Sensors Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. In this role, you will:
• Work with Sensor Architects to transition Sensor DRI ownership from design to NPI validation phase.
• Attend cross-functional program meetings and work with cross-functional team (PD/EE/Display/Optics/Operation etc.) on sensor integration and manufacturing g readiness, risks, and mitigations.
• Review hardware designs (e.g. CAD, schematics, layout, etc.) from partner teams as part of NPI validation process.
• Run data analysis and make design trade-off decisions as part of NPI validation process.
• Lead root-cause identification efforts for manufacturing issues and report status to leadership.
• Work with manufacturing team and contract manufacturers to optimize the build and test processes.
• Analyze yield and establish test limits.
• Write design guidelines based on acquired experience and knowledge, that will be used on subsequent projects.
• Explore new ideas and sensing technologies and contribute to new product exploration and prototyping.
• Meet with junior engineers to provide guidance and mentorship.
• Review and update process documentation and methodologies.
• Support Sensor Architects and program teams with product feature definition and specification.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with prototyping and implementation

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of SolidWorks simulation or Ansys Finite Element analysis tools
- Experience in the design of complex mechanical products and equipment at volume

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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