Sr. Electrical Engineer, AWS Hardware Development
DESCRIPTION
As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology. It automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Check it out at amazon.com/go. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our technology uses computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA. We need people who want to join a high-reaching program that continues to collaborate and push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for excellent engineers that epitomize technical and operational excellence that can drive innovation and apply technologies to solve real world challenges.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer within our team, you will collaborate with a skilled and accomplished cross-disciplinary staff and internal and external stakeholders to drive key aspects of technology solution definition, execution and validation.
Full cycle product development experience from inception through maturity is important. Working simultaneously on projects in different phases is common; you are able to demonstrate strong design and validation skills in addition to the understanding of mechanics of ongoing operational excellence and product support. You are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that's more startup than a big company. We will need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems.
You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and, given the size of this initiative, you will have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a ton and make a positive impact on millions of people.
A day in the life
A day in the life
You will specify or influence several aspects of the Amazon One roadmap:
Electrical: architecture, compute selection, power, connectivity, memory, and security.
Mechanical: thermal, mounting and environmental fitness.
Financial: BOM Costs, Non-Recurring-Expenses, connectivity, data streaming and processing, and field replacements and decommissioning at statistically predicted rates
Application: reliability, security, safety and EMC compliance
Device care and feeding: site requirements, installation, operational metrics, troubleshooting, replacement, and decommissioning.
You will write and present recommendations, experiment outcomes to Director level leadership.
About the team
About the team
The ARGON hardware team develops the hardware and firmware that enable the secure contactless Amazon One biometric experience. We are a group of many engineering disciplines, all working together closely to ideate, prototype, mature, and launch into high volume production custom hardware products.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Demonstrated experience aligning cross-disciplinary teams (business development, product management, industrial design, electical, mechanical, manufacturing, operations) for commercial embedded hardware.
- Excellent Active Listenting Skills.
- BS degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in hardware development across full product life cycle.
- 3+ years of experience in using schematic capture tool and PCB layout viewer
- 3+ years of experience board bring up and debugging in lab environment
- 3+ years of experience using lab equipment including soldering irons, hand-tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience as Product Manager for commercial embedded hardware.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $213,600/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.