Hardware Reliability Engineer, Devices Reliability Engineering

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $134,900 - $185,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile electronic devices. Amazon devices started with originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. Amazon reliability team aims to develop reliable and robust products that delight our customers. In this role, as a Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability engineering of our new and emerging devices.

Requirements

• BS degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with deep diving into reliability problems and resolving them independently.
• Experience in consumer, automotive, or robotics device reliability.
• Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability.
• Experience with hardware reliability testing such as vibration & shock testing, fatigue testing, electrical stress testing, ESD testing, and thermal stress testing.
• Experience in data analytics and statistical analysis, including lifetime analysis, acceleration factor studies, reliability modeling, and reliability allocation.
• Experience performing DFMEA and using quality and reliability tools such as FMEA, Fishbone, DOEs, and Six Sigma methods to build reliable products.
• Experience with data analysis tools such as JMP, Reliasoft, Matlab, Minitab, or Python.
• Experience using AI in engineering.
• Reliability program management experience and strong communication skills across writing and presenting.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD (or foreign equivalent) in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with failure analysis techniques: electrical debug, cross sectioning, dye and pry, and microscopy.
• Specialized knowledge of consumer, industrial, automotive, robotic, IC, or medical devices reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• Identify and validate product risks, including but not limited to electrical system, mechanical system, and work with design teams to mitigate them
• Define test methodology and test coverage to assure product reliability
• Provide hands-on experimental design and execution
• Perform reliability prediction of failure mechanisms on products under development and products in the field
• Serve as an unbiased product evaluator for designs, recommending and communicating product risks and driving improvements with data.
• Ensure that products are safe and reliable for our customers.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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