Sr. Thermal Scientist/Engineer, Product Integrity, Hardware - Product Integrity

Amazon•Bellevue, WA

10d

About The Position

You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. Your deliverables will include development of thermal solutions, concept design, feature development, product architecture and system validation through to manufacturing release. You will support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques. About the team 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 devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Requirements

PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of industry or academic research experience
7+ years of experience using CFD thermal simulation software in consumer electronics
7+ years of experience using Star-CCM+, FloTherm XT/EFD or comparable tool
Experience using geometric tolerances and statistical tolerance analysis techniques
Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation
Experience in manufacturing processes such as injection molding, sheet metal forming and die casting, Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
Experience in mentoring, leading and coaching
Demonstrated design experience with consumer electronics enclosure materials

Nice To Haves

PhD in mechanical engineering or related field
Creo Systems knowledge, Experience with Matlab or other engineering tools for modeling systems
Demonstrated experience with statistical analysis tools like JMP and ReliaSoft
This position may require international travel

Responsibilities

Evaluate and optimize thermal solution requirements of consumer electronic products
Use simulation tools like Star-CCM+ or FloTherm XT/EFD for analysis and design of products
Validate design modifications for thermal concerns using simulation and actual prototypes
Establish temperature thresholds for user comfort level and component level considering reliability requirements
Have intimate knowledge of various materials and heat spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues
Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation
Collaborate as part of device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives
Design and execute of tests using statistical tools to validate analytical models, identify risks and assess design margins
Create and present analytical and experimental results
Develop and apply design guidelines based on project learnings