Sr. Product Design Engineer, Advanced Product Team

Full-time - Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

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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 innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? As a Product Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the mechanical design, development and quality of products. You will take responsibility for leading project teams, technical problem solving, creatively meeting product objectives, at times delegating tasks to achieve your objectives and mentoring junior engineers. You will demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish your goals. You will play a role in defining processes and methods to improve the productivity of the entire team. You will identify and initiate investigations of production technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver an exceptional user experience.

Responsibilities

• Research into materials and component technologies to scope development opportunities
• Feature design and testing to meet program objective
• Test failure analysis and solution validation to complete successful product development
• Provide detail part design and product documentation
• Field failure analysis and solution evaluation for production product issues
• Support positive team interactions to accomplish program objectives
• Provide cross-functional program integration support to ensure team success
• Lead project teams to timely delivery of products
• Schedule and milestone management
• Manage interaction with overseas resources
• Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout product lifecycle
• Mentor junior engineers in good product design practice

Requirements

• 6+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
• Experience with the project management of technical projects
• Experience with Product Design of Consumer Electronics product
• Experience with CREO CAD Software
• Experience with FEA simulation tools

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Equity options
• Sign-on payments