ECAD Application Engineer, Design Technologies

Amazon • Redmond, WA

4d • $117,300 - $185,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Design Technologies is a multi-disciplinary group within Amazon Devices that builds and provides engineering tools and workflows, software systems and integrations, automations, and design services to hardware engineering teams across Amazon. We manage enterprise engineering systems, CAD tools, PDM/PLM systems, High Performance Compute (HPC) environments, and license management/procurement. We are looking for an ECAD Application Engineer with hands-on expertise in Cadence suite of applications, specifically Cadence OrCAD, Allegro, System Capture and Pulse to play a key role in configuring, customizing and extending the ECAD applications used at Amazon. Our team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of hardware design and artificial intelligence, pioneering AI-based design review and design generation capabilities that will transform how engineers create next-generation products. This position will be responsible for defining electrical engineering best practices, standards and guidelines, and managing customizations, configurations and providing support of ECAD applications to hardware engineering teams across Amazon. The position will have the opportunity to integrate AI/ML technologies into traditional CAD workflows, enabling intelligent automation and design assistance. Core activities will include gathering and defining business requirements, supporting design and development of workflow automations, prototyping, and support engineering tools and process automations by collaborating with teams responsible for working with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD systems. Export Control Requirements: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of working experience with Cadence suite of applications
• OrCAD/Allegro
• 3+ years of working experience with System Capture
• 3+ years of working experience with PDM/PLM system
• U.S. citizen

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI capabilities into traditional engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Providing a stable, performant and reliable set of best-in-class software tools for hardware engineers.
• Anticipating tool and infrastructure needs.
• Working with multiple organizations.
• Supporting users.
• Developing and implementing processes to enable successful and rapid development of innovative hardware products.
• Evaluating new features and functions that are made available within existing or potential ECAD tools to judge their potential benefits.
• Being the primary point of technical contact with ECAD tool vendor to support and influence their roadmaps to best meet the needs of the Amazon EE community.
• Working with ECAD tool vendors to resolve issues with vendor supplied code, and advocate for enhancements and bug fixes.
• Evangelizing and driving adoption of ECAD tools though process development and training.
• Defining best practices though documentation and requirements definition for development of ECAD automation.
• Delivering well written business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, user training documents and implementation documents.
• Managing and maintaining EDA scripts/automations, ECAD application extensions.
• Supporting engineering tools and process automations by collaborating with teams responsible for working with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD systems.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level