Amazon Failure Analysis Engineer SPICE Lab 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

427988650

The Role: The Failure Analysis team leverages science and engineering to improve product reliability and safety, accelerate innovation, and make a direct impact on design through high-quality analysis and expert interpretation of data. As a Failure Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for conducting technical lab work which drives prototype failure analysis and materials development investigations. You will develop and execute world-class analysis outcomes in the areas of sample preparation and physical/chemical characterization. A majority of time will be spent in a lab environment, so enthusiasm for hands-on work and developing lab procedures is important. You will manage a queue of failure analysis requests supporting Amazon hardware teams with the goal of driving design and manufacturing improvements.
Key job responsibilities
• Data collection and analysis utilizing a variety of characterization methods including optical/electron microscopy, x-ray imaging, spectroscopy (EDS, FTIR, XRF), thermal-mechanical (DSC, DMA, TMA, rheometer), and chromatography (IC, GC-MS)
• Consultation on corrective actions, method development, design/manufacturing best practices and material selection for cross-functional stakeholders
• Supporting Sr. Engineering staff to deliver expedient and accurate results for high-priority and escalated investigations
• Maintenance of lab tools, and ownership of operations best-practices/initiatives to ensure a clean and efficient work environment for the team
A day in the life
On a typical day in this role you will split time between your desk in our office area and the 10,000 sq. foot lab facility down the hallway. You'll have a queue of between 2 and 5 investigations at various stages, tracked using our Issue Management application and provide our internal stakeholders daily updates on progress. Your projects will most often culminate in a failure analysis report document which you'll use to build consensus around actions for the business to take in order to make reliable products/services which delight customers.

- 2+ years of hardware design and validation of components, subsystems and systems experience
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
- Experience using advanced materials and failure analysis techniques. Examples include SEM, computed tomography (CT) x-ray, cross sectioning, and FTIR
- Experience in performing bulk materials or electronics cross sections with associated physical/chemical measurements
- Experience following lab safety best-practices and SOPs

- Master's degree
- Experience independently troubleshooting, maintaining, and developing new methods for scientific equipment.
- Demonstrated ability to apply failure analysis methodology to independently develop analysis plans and develop a root-cause hypothesis with corrective action recommendations