Sr. Thermal Scientist/engineer, Product Integrity, Hardware - Product Integrity

Job Opportunity At Amazon Lab126

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 in this role include:

• Evaluate and optimize thermal solution requirements of consumer electronic products
• Use simulation tools like Star-CCM+ or 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 spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues
• Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation
• Collaborate as part of device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives
• Design and execute of 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 Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

Basic qualifications:

• PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of industry or academic research experience
• 7+ years of experience using CFD thermal simulation software in consumer electronics
• 7+ years of experience using Star-CCM+, FloTherm XT/EFD or comparable tool
• Experience using geometric tolerances and statistical tolerance analysis techniques
• Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation
• Experience in manufacturing processes such as injection molding, sheet metal forming and die casting, Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in mentoring, leading and coaching
• Demonstrated design experience with consumer electronics enclosure materials
• PhD in mechanical engineering or related field
• Creo Systems knowledge, Experience with Matlab or other engineering tools for modeling systems
• Demonstrated experience with statistical analysis tools like JMP and ReliaSoft

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.