Amazon is a leader in developing first of its kind hardware, such as Kindle, Echo and FireTV. Amazon reliability team aims to develop reliable and robust products that delight our customers. In this role, as a Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability engineering of our new and emerging category devices. As a reliability engineer on new category product, you will be developing new reliability specifications and building new and reliable technologies. You should have a good understanding of Reliability statistics, Reliability tests and/or solid understanding of consumer electronics to influence design for reliability to:
- Define new test specifications, methodology and test coverage to assure product reliability
- Identify and validate product risks and work with design teams to mitigate them
- Provide hands-on experimental design and execution
- Perform reliability prediction of failure mechanisms on products under development and products in the field
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff 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.
Key job responsibilities
Reliability Engineers are crucial in the creation and use of different assessments for assessing design risks and proposing mitigation measures. This job serves as an unbiased product evaluator for designs, recommending and communicating product risks and their influence with data. This job has an influence on the types of teams, including those responsible for program, product, design, controls, software, learning, procurement, support, maintainers, builders and legal. This position's primary responsibility is to ensure that products are created with the overall performance and long-term sustainability of the product in mind, as well as to accelerate product acceleration.
A day in the life
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious and earn trust.
