Amazon Sr Component Engineer Resource Electronic Design 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

754462326

As a Sr. Component Engineer at LAB126, you will be at the heart of the hardware design process. You will have the opportunity to apply your skills as part of a world-class team, working collaboratively with cross-functional groups to help bring some of the best-selling consumer electronics products to market."Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum."Key job responsibilities
Review all requests for new components and assure that the parts can satisfy the existing design requirements.
• Assign inventory part numbers and construct standardized descriptions for all new parts.
• Establish and maintain specifications for custom and off-the-shelf components.
• Generate specifications for new custom parts.
• Assist design engineers in the selection of parts that best fit their requirements.
• Read and understand electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and component data sheets.
• Work within the parameters of PLM to coordinate component approval and EOL/Obsolete status. •Authorize ECO’s (Engineering Change Orders) written against component and specifications.
• Interface with the ECAD team in the maintenance of Libraries and Databases.
• Coordinate failure analysis and root cause/corrective actions with internal and vendor teams. Experience in dealing with external labs.
• Value engineering (cost reduction). Work with cross-functional teams to source and suggest alternate parts. Teams will include SW Development, Operations Management, Materials Management, and Hardware Design Engineering.
• Participate in product design reviews.
• Test plan execution and creation.A day in the life
As a CE, in a HW Development Role, you will support all phases of the hardware development process including support of a component selection strategy that ensures part availability throughout the product development process; detect and prevent component issues that would impact successful product launch. You will juggle priorities without losing sight of the customer, the project schedule and planned launch milestones. Forging collaboration between the engineering, operations, and global commodity management groups to ensure that the component choices fit the goals and objectives of the design through production, sustaining, and obsolescence stages. The Component Engineer will assist in maintaining the AVL by creating Engineering change orders, assigning part numbers, and maintaining part descriptions.

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or related field.
- 5+ year's experience in a similar role.
- Experienced with many types of components such as SoC’s, chipsets, memories, PMIC’s, MOSFET’s, diodes, resistors, inductors, capacitors, connectors and cable assemblies.
- Experienced with ROHS/WEEE requirements and current exemptions.