ECAD Application Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon•Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of more than 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. As an ECAD Tools Application Engineer, you will be responsible for providing a stable, reliable set of Electrical Computer Aided Design (ECAD) tools and database management for electrical engineering design, layout, and simulation engineers. You will anticipate tool needs, support users, and develop processes to enable to successful and rapid development of a leading-edge low earth orbit satellite constellation. Our tools administrators help solve the problems of the day, work to lay the foundation for the future and stay on top of the most current technologies and methods to aid in our tools running at peak performance. Activities will include working with an end user to get their project back on track, creating a proposal and documents for future infrastructure needs to support scalability for the team and tools, automating processes to streamline development, and researching new tools or technologies to increase design rigor and productivity. The ECAD team supports the tools and infrastructure for Electrical Engineering, PCB Design, Library Management and the interface to our Enterprise systems including PLM, ERP and our Manufacturing tools.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent
Application Engineer for one or more CAD tools such as (Mentor Xpedition, Cadence Allegro, Altium Designer).
Experience with frontend (design tools), and the backend (ECAD library/design database, server infrastructure)
Enterprise Tool administration experience, debugging and solving client and server-side application issues, software installation, configuration, etc.
Experience in developing and documenting engineering processes related to ECAD tools and engineering activities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Electrical Engineering design.
Experience as Application Engineer for Mentor Xpedition and Mentor EDM.
Experience automating ECAD workflows/processes.
Experience providing support for Hyperlynx, Ansys, Reliance, and other engineering applications.
Experience with Windows servers, Batch scripts, powershell, Windows file servers, HyperV
Experience with Linux servers. Bash scripts, cron, ssh, samba, etc.
Experience with PLM systems, engineering lifecycle management and workflows.
Understanding of network fundamentals; switching, routing, etc.
Experience with flexlm license servers
Experience with LDAP and SAML for user management and authentication.
Experience architecting AWS infrastructure and managing server and workstation implementation.

Responsibilities

providing a stable, reliable set of Electrical Computer Aided Design (ECAD) tools and database management for electrical engineering design, layout, and simulation engineers
anticipate tool needs
support users
develop processes to enable to successful and rapid development of a leading-edge low earth orbit satellite constellation