Amazon Senior Sensor Designer OPD Hardware 

China, Guangdong Province, Luohu District 

314023927

The Role:As a Senior Sensors Designer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and testing. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. In this role, you will:• Design world class hardware, and, if applicable, software/firmware.
• Own end-to-end sensor architecture definition and development.
• Own the Preconcept assessment for ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) projects.
• Interpret customer requirements to develop technology specifications.
• Perform sensor technology selection and address all aspects of technology readiness, including manufacturability.
• Lead Prototype and Proof of Concept developments
• Investigate emerging technologies and help mature them for mass-production
• Lead internal initiatives to develop new technologies
• Collaborate with design teams to develop sensor subsystem design.
• Interact with cross functional engineering teams across the company.
• Build relationship with component vendors and oversees manufacturing partners
• Dive into and take ownership of critical issues.
• Help build robust methodology and processes to deliver technology to products.
• Up to 20% travel

- • Bachelor or Master's degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
- • Sensor Depth and Breadth in a combination of the following categories: Optical, Inertial, Environmental, Bio-chemical, Ultrasonic, Thermal.
- • 10+ years’ experience as a hardware engineer with majority focus on sensors.
- • System level integration experience including fixture design, sensor testing and troubleshooting
- • DFx (Design for cost, test, manufacturing) experience
- • Hands-on experience with physical characterization of sensors
- • Experience with quantitative and statistical data analysis Software (Matlab, Mathematica, or Python)
- • Factory support experience.
- • Functional knowledge of analog design blocks including filters, PLLs, oscillators, charge pumps, DACs, ADCs etc.
- • Experience with Schematic Capture and PCB layout tools such as Allegro.
- • Experience using lab equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, optical power meters, linear and rotation stages, etc.
- • Excellent technical document writing skills using Word, Excel, and/or PowerPoint.
- • Experience with Revision control/Document control
- • Experience with platforms such as Linux/Unix and Windows

- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
- Experience with the project management of technical projects
- Preferred Qualifications:
- • Ph.D. degree preferred
- • Consumer Industry Experience.
- • Experience with simulation tools (Zemax, COMSOL, ANSYS, etc.)
- • Experience with mechanical CAD packages (Solidworks, CREO, etc.)
- • Experience of semiconductor/MEMS manufacturing processes.
- • Experience developing with Python, Labview, .Net/C#, Android, IOS or Qt
- • Mechanical design expertise will be a plus