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 Development Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for the mechanical design, development, and quality of consumer electronic products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. In the role, you will wear many hats in working on the system design down to quick turn prototypes, production manufacturing process, testing, and quality control. 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.
You will work in a small PD team to create a new experience and work with the team at large to ensure a functional and beautiful product. To be successful you need to be highly motivated, understand how to solve problems and dive deep while delivering to the highest standards.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• Demonstrate a strong working knowledge of mechanical systems, with expertise in systems integration of systems commonly found in consumer devices.
• Integrate and design dynamic mechanisms, utilizing motors, solenoids, or other actuators.
• Perform feature design to meet program objectives in performance, cost, size or other requirements.
• Perform failure analysis and solution validation to solve hard problems
• Provide cross-functional program integration support to ensure team success
• Manage and analyze data relating to performance and quality specifications using statistical methods.
• Travel (up to 15%) to support manufacturing activities overseas
• Manage schedules and milestones
• Demonstrate hands-on passion for your work and a desire to take on new challenges
• Support positive team interactions to achieve within a highly skilled and experienced team
• Demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback and to respond quickly to changing contexts and work environments
• Contribute to the hiring process to build teams
• Mentor junior engineers in good product design practice
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Prepare and deliver updates to management as necessary
