Sr. Product Design Engineer, Amazon Devices-Hardware

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

As a Senior Product Development Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for the mechanical design, development, and quality of consumer electronic products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. In the role, you will wear many hats in working on the system design down to quick turn prototypes, production manufacturing process, testing, and quality control. You will play a role in defining processes and methods to improve the productivity of the entire team. You will identify and initiate investigations of production technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver an exceptional user experience.

You will work in a small PD team to create a new experience and work with the team at large to ensure a functional and beautiful product. To be successful you need to be highly motivated, understand how to solve problems and dive deep while delivering to the highest standards.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead a design team through technical capabilities, clear communication, and strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrate a strong working knowledge of mechanical systems, with expertise in systems integration of systems commonly found in consumer devices.
• Perform feature design to meet program objectives in performance, cost, size or other requirements.
• Perform failure analysis and solution validation to solve hard problems
• Provide cross-functional program integration support to ensure team success
• Manage and analyze data relating to performance and quality specifications using statistical methods.
• Travel (up to 15%) to support manufacturing activities overseas
• Manage schedules and milestones
• Demonstrate hands-on passion for your work and a desire to take on new challenges
•Support positive team interactions to achieve within a highly skilled and experienced team
• Demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback and to respond quickly to changing contexts and work environments
• Contribute to the hiring process to build teams
• Mentor junior engineers in good product design practice
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Prepare and deliver updates to leadership on a regular basis.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in product development
- Strong 3D CAD skills (Creo or similar)
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Demonstrated experience in designing products for consumer, enterprise or industrial use through the whole development cycle (concept to production).
- Demonstrated design experience integrating component modules (I/O, Cameras, Sensors, Displays, Batteries, PCBs, etc.)
- Analytic problem-solving skills, including knowledge of Six Sigma, DOE or similar disciplines
- Demonstrated knowledge of design specification, and validation using tolerance analysis and critical parameter management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing technologies, and design for manufacturability.
- Product validation experience (Shock/Drop, Environmental Testing, etc...)
- Demonstrated leadership and mentorship skills
- High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to turn broad program objectives into actionable design initiatives

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally with all disciplines involved in specifying and engineering complex electronic products (for example, Industrial Design, Product Management, Electrical Engineering, Design Integrity, Tooling & Process Engineering, etc.)
- Expertise in AI, and increasing your productivity or skills in engineering through its utilization.

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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USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 157,900.00 - 213,600.00 USD annually