Senior Sensor Engineer, Edge Tech

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

1d

About The Position

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?

As a Sr. 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.

Requirements

• Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience in DFx (cost, test, manufacturing)
• Experience collaborating with the ECAD/physical board designer and able to review PCB designs with Allegro, CAM350, or equivalent
• Breadth and depth in at least two sensor fields such as Optical, Inertial, Chemical, Biological, Acoustic
• 7+ years’ experience as a hardware/sensor engineer on consumer electronics product development
• Experience with physical characterization of sensors and familiarity with electrical/optical/mechanical testing equipment
• Experience with quantitative, statistical data analysis SW (JMP, Matlab, Python, LabView)
• Experience with schematic capture with tool sets such as OrCAD

Nice To Haves

• 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 Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience in technical document writing using Visio, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Manufacturing site support experience

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

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