Thermal Scientist, Product Integrity

Job ID: Amazon Development Centre (India) Private Limited

You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness.

Your deliverables will include development of thermal solutions, concept design, feature development, product architecture and system validation through to manufacturing release. You will support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Evaluate and optimize thermal solution requirements of consumer electronic products.
• Use simulation tools like Star CCM/FloTherm XT/EFD for analysis and design of products.
• Validate design modifications for thermal concerns using simulation and actual prototypes.
• Establish temperature thresholds for user comfort level and component level considering reliability requirements.
• Have intimate knowledge of various materials and heat spreader solutions to resolve thermal issues.
• Use programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation.
• Collaborate as part of the device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives.
• Design and execute tests using statistical tools to validate analytical models, identify risks, and assess design margins.
• Create and present analytical and experimental results.
• Develop and apply design guidelines based on project learnings.

About the team

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 innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Basic Qualifications

• PhD or Masters in mechanical engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience using Star-CCM/FloTherm XT/EFD or comparable tool in consumer electronics.
• Experience using geometric tolerances and statistical tolerance analysis techniques.
• Experience in manufacturing processes such as injection molding, sheet metal forming and die casting, Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA).
• 2+ years of experience of building machine learning models for business application.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated design experience with consumer electronics enclosure materials.
• Creo Systems knowledge, Experience with Matlab or other engineering tools for modeling dynamic systems.
• Demonstrated experience with statistical analysis tools like JMP and ReliaSoft.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills.
• This position may require international travel.

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