Amazon Product Design Engineer 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

692547165

What will you help us create?
As a Product Development Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for the mechanical design, development, and quality of consumer electronic products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future. In the role, you will wear many hats in working on the system design down to quick turn prototypes, manufacturing production process, testing, and quality control. You will play a role in defining processes and methods to improve the productivity of the entire team. You will identify and initiate investigations of production technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver an exceptional user experience.
You will work in a small PD team to create a new experience and work with the team at large to ensure a functional and beautiful product. To be successful you need to be highly motivated, understand how to solve problems and dive deep while delivering to the highest standards.
You will demonstrate a strong working knowledge of mechanical systems, with expertise in systems integration; the desire to learn from new challenges and the problem solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team.- Demonstrate a strong working knowledge of mechanical systems, with expertise in systems integration
- Demonstrate an ability to integrate feedback and to respond quickly to changing contexts and work environments
- Lead the hiring process to build teams
- Mentor junior engineers in good product design practice- Perform feature design and testing to meet program objectives
- Perform test failure analysis and solution validation to complete successful product development
- Lead field failure analysis and solution evaluation for production product issues
- Manage schedules and milestones
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience, product development of consumer electronics
- 1+ years of experience leading engineering teams
- Strong 3D CAD skills (Creo or similar)
- Product validation experience (Shock/Drop, Cycle Testing, Environmental Testing)
- This position will require international travel; ~20%.