Hardware Reliability Engineer, Devices Reliability Engineering

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile electronic devices. Amazon devices started with originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. 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 devices.

The Role:

As a Hardware Reliability Engineer, 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. You will be responsible for the test and validation of consumer electronics devices. You should have a good understanding of Reliability statistics/Reliability tests and/or solid understanding of electrical products to influence design for reliability to:

- Identify and validate product risks, including but not limited to electrical system, mechanical system, and work with design teams to mitigate them
- Define test methodology and test coverage to assure product reliability
- Provide hands-on experimental design and execution
- Perform reliability prediction of failure mechanisms on products under development and products in the field


Key job responsibilities
Reliability Engineers are crucial in the creation and use of different assessments for evaluating design risks and proposing mitigation measures. This job serves as an unbiased product evaluator for designs, recommending and communicating product risks and driving improvements with data. This job has influence across all teams, including those responsible for program, product, design, software, procurement, manufacturing, support, and legal. This position's primary responsibility is to ensure that products are safe and reliability for our customers.

Basic Qualifications

- BS degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with deep diving into reliability problems and resolving them independently.
- Experience in consumer, automotive, or robotics device reliability.
- Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability.
- Experience with hardware reliability testing such as vibration & shock testing, fatigue testing, electrical stress testing, ESD testing, and thermal stress testing.
- Experience in data analytics and statistical analysis, including lifetime analysis, acceleration factor studies, reliability modeling, and reliability allocation.
- Experience performing DFMEA and using quality and reliability tools such as FMEA, Fishbone, DOEs, and Six Sigma methods to build reliable products.
- Experience with data analysis tools such as JMP, Reliasoft, Matlab, Minitab, or Python.
- Experience using AI in engineering.
- Reliability program management experience and strong communication skills across writing and presenting.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree or PhD (or foreign equivalent) in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with failure analysis techniques: electrical debug, cross sectioning, dye and pry, and microscopy.
- Specialized knowledge of consumer, industrial, automotive, robotic, IC, or medical devices reliability standards.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 134,900.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually