Amazon Senior Advanced Materials Engineer 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

488949610

The Role-Key job responsibilities
• Conduct research and develop tests to identify, down select, develop, and derisk new soft-good materials, including fibers, yarn and fabrics, and bio-leathers.
• Identify and propose novel material-centric customer experience enablers, methods to improve manufacturing quality, lower carbon footprint or reduce cost.
• Be hands on with test development, testing and analysis of materials using a variety of characterization and analysis tools. Use statistical tools as needed to identify solutions and trends.
• Communicate findings and proposed direction to key stakeholder, to build consensus along chosen path.
• Demonstrate manufacturability of new materials by constructing schedule/ timeline and coordinate efforts with contract manufacturers, program teams, global supply chain management, and reliability engineering
• Maintain updates on project status utilizing project management tools
• Conduct competitive analysis to contribute to the establishment of benchmarks for new materials
• Be a materials content expert in the hardware development process – define the materials requirements surrounding resins, textiles and metals.
• Mentor and grow the technical strength of the organization along the materials domain.

- Bachelors degree in materials science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience with solving materials challenges in industry.
- Experience using empirical material analysis and characterization tools.
- Experience in textile manufacturing processes.
- Experience using statistical analysis to solve engineering and manufacturing issues

- MS or PhD degree in materials science or related field.
- Experience in materials innovations leading to new products or enhanced functionality of existing products.
- Expertise in material science including successful introduction of new materials into products.
- Strong communication (written and verbal), collaboration, and presentation skills