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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Senior Product Engineer - Product Engineering

Full-Time
$185.2k - $287.5k/yr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Austin, TX, USA+3 moreMore locations: Redmond, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA
In PersonUp to 20% domestic or international travel required.
Hardware EngineeringHardware Validation & Testing
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship, US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering, or experience working in the electrical engineering field.
  • At least 10 years of experience in semiconductor product engineering or foundry process operations, preferably in high-volume wireless system-on-chip device manufacturing.
  • Up to 20% domestic or international travel is required.
  • Experience with RF product development and characterization.
  • Knowledge of digital and serializer/deserializer testing.
  • Experience interfacing with suppliers and external partners.
  • Proficiency in statistics, data analysis, and YMS products such as Exensio and JMP.
  • Experience with new product introduction, transitioning from the design phase through qualification and into a high-volume manufacturing environment.
  • Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as FIB, SEM, IR, EMMI, and CSAM.
  • Knowledge of package technologies such as FCBGA, FCCSP, WLCSP, and QFN.
Responsibilities
  • Review system and product specifications and define appropriate stage-gate criteria for product development and qualification.
  • Review process and technology selection for products based on application and design architecture, and identify key risks.
  • Review package design, configuration, and bill-of-material choices with the packaging team and incorporate product-package considerations into characterization and qualification plans.
  • Develop and execute de-risking strategies to address technology risks during product development.
  • Drive test program reviews with design, test, design verification and test, and system teams.
  • Define test plans and test coverage for production lots, corner lots, and pre- and post-qualification based on system specifications and yield and Cpk targets.
  • Develop and evaluate test programs with test engineering and perform prototype silicon bring-up.
  • Analyze foundry wafer acceptance test data from development, corner, and qualification lots.
  • Define characterization plans for corner lots with design, design verification and test, and systems teams in alignment with the mission profile and system specifications.
  • Execute characterization data collection and analysis on corner lots across voltage and temperature.
  • Assess gaps and drive alignment between automated test equipment and bench test programs, resolving mismatches between automated test equipment and bench results.
  • Analyze bench-to-automated-test-equipment correlation data and implement offsets or transforms to align automated test equipment data with golden bench results.
  • Complete characterization data analysis to derive guard bands for production test programs and confirm compliance with system specifications.
  • Work with design and test engineering to identify bugs and support fixes during product bring-up.
  • Design and execute gauge repeatability and reproducibility data collection on initial test hardware setups to demonstrate gauge capability against product specifications, and drive follow-up actions such as test-program debugging or specification relaxation with the systems team when appropriate.
  • Drive test-time reduction using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques such as RF-to-DC and final-test-to-wafer-sort correlation and reject-oriented analysis, optimizing test coverage, quality, yield, and cost.
  • Define qualification plans based on the mission profile and execute them, projecting FIT-rate and defects-per-million estimates based on technology parameters, system application, and product lifetime targets.
  • Identify root causes and drive fixes for failures reported during qualification.
  • Publish comprehensive product qualification, characterization, and release-to-production documentation for stakeholder review and approval.
  • Review system specifications and align with system, design, design verification and test, and test teams on test coverage.
  • Define stage-gate flow from product definition through release-to-production phases.
  • Validate and confirm gauge capability across initial hardware setups for test solutions developed to system specifications.
  • Drive characterization and product bring-up.
  • Correlate automated test equipment data to bench results, define correlation criteria, and debug poor fit across platforms.
  • Assess process and package technologies, identify key concerns, and develop de-risking and validation strategies by interlinking product dependencies.
  • Define process corners and package evaluations and verify production readiness across the supply chain.
  • Finalize production automated test equipment specifications for test programs and complete buy-off from systems, design, and operations teams.
  • Complete qualification and release to production while meeting target yield and Cpk numbers.
  • Collaborate with design verification and test, design, and test teams to resolve product and test issues.
  • Work with the packaging team, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, and foundries to address open engineering items.
  • Track product bring-up and introduction schedules with technical program management teams.
  • Run data analyses on product gauge repeatability and reproducibility, characterization, and bench-to-automated-test-equipment data.
  • Design and run corner lots in fabrication and through assembly and test.
  • Review qualification results and run drift analysis.
Desired Qualifications
  • A Master's or PhD degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field.
  • Scripting skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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