Senior Sensor Engineer, Asia Technology Center

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Sensor Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition execution and testing. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment

A day in the life
Design world class hardware and if applicable software/firmware.
Own end-to-end sensor architecture definition and development.
Own the Preconcept assessment for ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) projects.
Interpret customer requirements to develop technology specifications.
Perform sensor technology selection and address all aspects of technology readiness including manufacturability.
Lead Prototype and Proof of Concept developments
Investigate emerging technologies and help mature them for mass-production
Lead internal initiatives to develop new technologies
Collaborate with design teams to develop sensor subsystem design.
Interact with cross functional engineering teams across the company.
Build relationship with component vendors and oversees manufacturing partners
Dive into and take ownership of critical issues.
Help build robust methodology and processes to deliver technology to products.
Up to 20% travel

- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering computer science mathematics or physics
- Sensor Depth and Breadth in a combination of the following categories: Optical Inertial Environmental Bio-chemical Ultrasonic Thermal.
- 8 years experience as a hardware engineer with majority focus on sensors.
- System level integration experience including fixture design sensor testing and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience with physical characterization of sensors
- Experience with quantitative and statistical data analysis Software (Matlab Mathematica or Python)
- Functional knowledge of analog design blocks including filters PLLs oscillators charge pumps DACs ADCs etc.
- Experience using lab equipment such as logic analyzers oscilloscopes optical power meters linear and rotation stages etc.
- Factory support experience.

- Masters degree in Engineering Technology Science Operations Research Robotics Mathematics or related fields or Masters degree
- Consumer Industry Experience.
- Experience with simulation tools (Zemax COMSOL ANSYS etc.)
- Experience with mechanical CAD packages (Solidworks CREO etc.)
- Experience of semiconductor/MEMS manufacturing processes.
- Experience coding and developing with Python /C# Android IOS or Qt
- Mechanical design expertise will be a plus

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