Hardware Development Engineer, Devices

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 Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role:

As a Hardware Development Engineer in our team, you will be responsible for supporting product development functions across design, validation and manufacturing. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. In this role, you will wear many hats working on system design down to quick turn prototypes, manufacturing production processes, design validation and debug. You will work at the integrated circuit and product systems level and drive the quality bar to ensure the products we ship are bug free.

To be successful you need to be highly motivated, understand how to solve problems and dive deep while delivering to the highest standards. You will demonstrate a strong working knowledge of product electrical design with expertise in systems integration, the desire to learn from new challenges, and the problem-solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

* Lead multiple electrical design and validation on multiple products across Amazon device portfolio

* Research test/validation technologies and methodologies across factory and lab environment

* Develop and execute detailed electrical validation test plans to ensure functional and parametric conformance

* Drive debug and root cause of hardware design issues, qualifying trade-offs and user impact

* Serve as the in-region technical liaison between US-based design teams and China-based manufacturing partners

* Provide on-site electrical engineering support at manufacturing facilities in China

* Drive hardware bring-up, debug, and failure analysis at manufacturing sites

* Support Design for Manufacturing (DFM) initiatives and manufacturing process optimization

* Own and resolve electrical design issues across xVT phases, while driving validation status reporting across mile-stone gates

* Leverage AI tools and/or write scripts where feasible to automate for efficiency

* Support positive team interactions to accomplish program objectives

* Coach or mentor junior electrical engineers

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- 3+ years of overall experience in design, validation and manufacturing experience in consumer electronics

- Experience leading and working with contract manufacturers for all stages of product development

- Experience in Power Regulation (AC-DC/DC-DC) Design, including schematic, layout, design validation and debug

- Strong EE fundamentals and experience in failure analysis and troubleshooting skills in a laboratory environment

- Experience in leading and driving electrical product development across schematic design, layout, assembly and design validation

- Experience with prototyping solutions and bench testing methodology

- Experience in schematic entry, layout tools and design for manufacture-ability (familiarity with OrCAD Capture and Cadence Allegro tool flow is a plus)

- Knowledge of processor architecture, digital circuit design and various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, etc.

- English and Mandarin language skills

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree or above in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent

- Expertise with power supply design and High and high-speed electrical signal characterization

- Experience with Audio front end electrical design and validation using Audio Precision

- Strong depth in Memory Technology domains (eMMC, DRAM, etc.)

- Experience integrating RF technologies such as WIFI, BT, GPS, etc.

- Knowledge of Battery management Systems and experience with battery powered, wireless, embedded HW/SW consumer devices

- Automation experience (i.e. shell, Perl, Python, etc.)

- Strong communication and documentation skills and ability to operate autonomously

- Complete understanding of manufacturing process including DFM and DFT for consumer products

- Strong interpersonal skills and capability to manage and drive various cross-functional team members

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