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 groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical. We are looking for a highly motivated Test Development Engineer to provide technical expertise for manufacturing and testing Amazon’s next generation of devices and bring new test methodologies to fruition.

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
As a Manufacturing Test Engineer, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the development and future of the AME Manufacturing Test team. In this role you will innovate and solve problems of high ambiguity and high impact. You will drive design choices, trade-offs, priorities and timelines that align with overall project goals. You will demonstrate exceptional technical expertise, and practical experience designing factory test solutions. You are data and metric driven, and consistently strive for optimal performance even in resource-constrained situations. You will guide and inspire other engineers, participate in defining our engineering culture, and help to build a world class team.

A day in the life
As a Manufacturing Test Engineer you’ll be expected to:
• Design and Develop test solutions and test-setup prototypes for new technologies
• Work collaboratively with engineering and operations partners
• Serve as a test lead on cross-functional projects with significant bottom-line impact
• Ensure the quality and execution of our manufacturing test systems
• Lead test design and drive test coverage reviews with engineering teams and CMs.
• Proactively communicate technical information and status to broad, cross-functional teams via weekly updates
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Understand system inter-dependencies and limitations
• Travel to development and build sites in Seattle and Asia to support NPI activities.
• Work with contract manufacturing test teams to ensure test line readiness for NPI build events.


About the team
Joining the AME Manufacturing Test team gives you the opportunity to:
• Innovate the next generation manufacturing solutions for Amazon Devices
• Participate in the architecture, design, development and launch of some of the core product features for customers
• Drive all of the factory test coverage requirements and mass production testing.
• Working collaboratively with MTM and MDE teams to converge on factory line layout.
• Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize manufacturing and test
• Build diversity and inclusion circumstances to promote innovation, creativity, and problem-solving.
The ideal candidate will have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts. You’ll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.