Amazon Product Design Engineer Advanced Team 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

711175862

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.
Key job responsibilities
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• Desire to learn from new challenges and possess the problem solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team• Demonstrate hands-on passion for your work and be able to communicate ideas and concepts both verbally and visually• 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• Provide ongoing performance feedback and career management of team• 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• Support positive team interactions to accomplish program objectives• Provide cross-functional program integration support to insure team success• Manage schedules and milestones• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills• Prepare and deliver updates to the Executive team when necessary

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 3+ years of experience in product development
- Strong 3D CAD skills (Creo or similar)
- Demonstrated design experience with high volume/high finish consumer electronics enclosure materials
- Analytic problem solving skills, including knowledge of 8D, Six Sigma, DOE or similar disciplines
- Demonstrated design experience integrating component modules (I/O, Cameras, Sensors, Displays, Batteries, PCBs, etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge of tooling and materials process validation (SPC, Cp, CpK)
- This position will require international travel; ~20%.