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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?


Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Sensors Architect, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and testing. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
In this role, you will:
• Architect sensing systems into world-class devices and cutting-edge prototypes.
• Own end-to-end sensor architecture definition and development.
• Interpret customer requirements to develop technology specifications.
• Perform sensor technology selection and address all aspects of technology readiness, including manufacturability.
• Lead Prototype and Proof of Concept developments.
• Investigate emerging technologies and help mature them for mass-production.
• Lead internal initiatives to evaluate and develop new technologies.
• Collaborate with design teams to develop sensor subsystem designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders across the company.
• Build relationships with component vendors and oversee manufacturing partners.
• Dive into and take ownership to root-cause and resolve critical design and manufacturing issues.
• Establish robust processes and methodologies to deliver technology to products.
• Up to 20% travel.


A day in the life
• Work with product teams and cross-functional engineering teams to come up with new solutions for future Amazon devices.
• Evaluate and select sensing solutions to meet product requirements.
• Review hardware designs (e.g. CAD, schematics, layout, etc.) from partner teams.
• Provide input on sensor placement and architecture.
• Explore new and emerging sensing capabilities and modalities to deliver new user experiences to Amazon customers.
• Run data analysis and make design trade-off decisions.
• Run sensor simulations to determine sensor performance given system constraints.
• Investigate new sensor architectures to improve customer experience, reduce cost, or add new features.
• Review and update processes to remove bottlenecks and optimize development workflows.
• Write design guidelines based on acquired experience and knowledge, that will be used on subsequent projects.
• Write comprehensive sensor architecture document.

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