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Amazon Hardware Electrical Engineer, System Integrity in Sunnyvale, California
Description
Do you want to shape the future of consumer electronics devices?
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and develops high-profile consumer electronic devices, creating the best-selling Kindle, Fire, Echo, and Astro family of products. What will you help us create?
The Role
As an Electrical Engineer in System Integrity team, you lead the charge in identifying what can go wrong and best ways to safeguard such failures in electrical design. The team works to apply customer use cases to products ensuring safety, reliability, and customer experience by design.
Our engineers work on multiple products starting in early concept with architecture and continuing through volume prototypes. We work backwards from real customer use cases and ensure the desired behavior of our devices. You will develop methodologies for battery protection and charging, electrical surge suppression, drop detection, ESD mitigation, electronic control & feedback, and more...
Engineers work independently to identify systemic or emerging design challenges facing customer use scenarios, develop a deep understanding of the issue, brainstorm mitigation methodologies, deploy improvements to products, and specificity test procedures to validate the improvement.
This is an electrical engineering position, however you will daily interact with teams for firmware, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and software.
Key job responsibilities
For these products you will start with customers and identify use cases. For each use case you will map through the electrical and firmware behavior to determine a method to achieve a desired result. You will frequently act as a problem solver, taking ambiguous or overly constrained issues and determining a path to a solution via hardware, architecture, or firmware design modifications. You will take advantage of device metrics and create new metrics to ensure continued growth in understanding customer usage patterns.
You are responsible for ensuring that the EE design is safe and meets the intended safety requirements. You will review the design from the early prototype phase, perform analysis and conduct testing to identify potential safety hazards and reliability problems. You will conduct deep dive on previous field issues, conduct failure analysis and apply the lesson learned on new programs. You will define FW requirements to ensure battery safety and create HW models for algorithm development. You will conduct PCB design and layout reviews and DFMEA to assess EE reliability/safety and device behavior in undesirable events such as moisture ingress, component failures, short-circuit, high temperature, electrical overstress and surge.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Basic Qualifications
BS in EE, Computer Engineering, with
4+ years of experience in consumer electronics
2+ years of experience with system-level design including circuit design, system bring-up, integration, debug, and embedded firmware coordination.
Experience with reviewing, understanding, and providing guidance on embedded firmware applications to meet hardware design needs.
Experience with electrical understanding of designs including power sequences, regulators, embedded communication busses, and power states.
Experience with breaking down problems into electrical fundamentals.
Experience troubleshooting issues in ICs, system designs, and firmware interactions.
Experience with processor architecture, digital design and various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
MSEE with 4+ years of experience in EE HW or IC design or application
Knowledge of battery management system
Knowledge of low-power circuit design, DC/DC converters, power management methods, audio circuit design, and analog design
Experience partnering with firmware teams to define and implement firmware, drivers and algorithms
Experience debugging multi-disciplinary challenges and developing test plans to validate multi-disciplinary interfaces.
Ability to communicate clearly and guide global multidisciplinary teams.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $93,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.