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 and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role-
The Advanced Materials team in Product Integrity is looking for a passionate material scientist to define and develop an innovative soft-goods (textiles, leathers, metals, rubbers) roadmap, bringing novel cost-effective customer facing materials from the lab to products. As an Advanced Materials Engineer (Level 6), you will identify key partners in industry and academia to gain access to cutting edge materials, work with internal and external partners to derisk technologies, and conduct studies to demonstrate desirability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have experience developing novel soft goods for consumer applications with a proven track record of taking ownership and driving results in a multi-disciplinary team environment.


Key job responsibilities
• Conduct research and develop tests to identify, down select, develop, and derisk new soft-good materials, including fibers, yarn and fabrics, and bio-leathers.
• Identify and propose novel material-centric customer experience enablers, methods to improve manufacturing quality, lower carbon footprint or reduce cost.
• Be hands on with test development, testing and analysis of materials using a variety of characterization and analysis tools. Use statistical tools as needed to identify solutions and trends.
• Communicate findings and proposed direction to key stakeholder, to build consensus along chosen path.
• Demonstrate manufacturability of new materials by constructing schedule/ timeline and coordinate efforts with contract manufacturers, program teams, global supply chain management, and reliability engineering
• Maintain updates on project status utilizing project management tools
• Conduct competitive analysis to contribute to the establishment of benchmarks for new materials
• Be a materials content expert in the hardware development process – define the materials requirements surrounding resins, textiles and metals.
• Mentor and grow the technical strength of the organization along the materials domain.


About the team
The Advanced Material team is chartered with developing unique and customer valued materials for Amazon’s consumer electronics products, and providing subject matter expertise for critical materials and processes. The team is comprised of experts in metallurgy, polymer chemistry, composite materials, textiles and coatings. In addition to supporting current programs, this team anticipates the needs of future products, like sustainable material solutions, and develop long term solutions to intersect business objectives. If you are excited about solving today’s challenging materials technology problems and innovating tomorrow’s possibilities, we would love to meet you.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boston, MA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA