Hardware Development Engineer, Amazon Ring VDC

Amazon Ring is looking for a Hardware Development Engineer who will be a part of our global electrical engineering team, playing a critical role in ensuring the highest product quality standards and driving continuous improvement for the products.
Development of full devices requires system level design for SoC platforms, Memory, Sensors, Power Architecture, and related peripheral functions while integrating with technologies like radar, cameras, Wi-Fi, ETH, etc. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a fast-paced environment.
You are expected to represent as a hardware design and validation owner and dive deep into difficult problems for root cause analysis and arrange appropriate solutions.

Key job responsibilities
• Hands on for circuit design, review, build and verification
• Develop and implement detailed validation plans tailored to specific hardware designs
• Collaborate with design and production teams to understand and test against product requirements
• Analyze and interpret data from validation tests, offering insights and recommendations
• Design document validation processes, findings, and insights in a structured and clear manner
• Component specification study and component validation
• Oversee and plan the use of validation equipment to guarantee consistent results
• Work cross-functionally to troubleshoot and address any hardware issues identified during validation
• Second source qualification, cost down design validation and manufacturing efficiencies
• Support new product introduction and Sustaining engineering
• Develop and contribute in testing automation


Agentic AI Responsibilities
• Define and implement Agentic AI strategies for hardware engineering workflows, including AI-assisted design review automation, intelligent knowledge management, and AI-powered validation frameworks
• Build and maintain AI agent configurations (MCP servers, AI tools) that integrate with hardware design systems (Altium 365, simulation tools, component databases…) to accelerate engineering productivity
• Drive adoption of AI-native development practices across the hardware engineering team, measuring and reporting productivity improvements


A day in the life
As a member of the hardware engineering team, you will own next-generation product design and validation, delighting our customers with best quality. You will interact with a versatile team of engineers to design, develop, validate, and launch products on a large scale. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You will work with experts in multiple technological areas. You have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with. You will be constantly looking for ways to improve performance, quality, and cost.

About the team
We're a friendly team, always eager to bring new and exciting ideas to the table. Our drive pushes us to always aim higher — we're not afraid to think outside the box. Though we may have our debates, once we decide on something, we all stand by it firmly: we have backbone, disagree and commit. And we always insist on the highest standard. In our team, every voice matters, and every effort counts.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Experience in hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems
- Experience in motherboard design, PCB design including schematic capture, stackup and circuit board layout
- Knowledge of EE CAD design tools: OrCAD Capture, Allegro, Altium Designer, A365, etc.
- Experience with High Bandwidth scope, BERT, Logic Analyzer, VNA and TDR measurements
- Basic knowledge of FW operation, MCU structure, Flash Programming, GPIO settings
- Knowledge of standard hardware bus characteristics, including RS-232, I2C, SPI, MIPI, USB, SDIO, DDR, PCI-E

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of Python or similar scripting language
- Experience with building high volume consumer IoT products
- Experience with Battery Powered hardware design and validation
- Experience with test strategy design for automated functional and system testing
- Experience with system level SI/PI analysis and PCB PDN design
- Knowledge of standard high speed hardware bus characteristics, including MIPI, USB, DDR, PCI-E, etc.
- Experience with design and simulation tools, such as HSpice, ADS, SigSim, SIwave, PowerSI, PowerDC
- Experience with High Bandwidth scope, BERT, Logic Analyzer, VNA and TDR measurements
- Experience with using AI tools to improve productivity

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